Adverse family experiences and obesity in children and adolescents in the United States

Lynch, Brian; Agunwamba, Amenah A.; Wilson, Philip; Kumar, Seema; Jacobson, Robert M.; Phelan, Seán; Cristiani, Valeria; Fan, Chun; Rutten, Lila J. Finney

doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.06.035

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“…However, in the 1993 Pelotas Cohort, no association was found with the ACE score. Previous studies carried out in high-income countries found that the number of ACEs was associated with higher BMI and WC (29), and higher odds of overweight (30) in adolescents and a doseresponse relationship between the accumulation of ACEs and both BMI and WC has also been observed (29).…”

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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Adiposity in Adolescents: A Cross‐Cohort Comparison

Soares

Matijasevich

Menezes

et al. 2017

Obesity

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ObjectiveThis study aimed to assess the association between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and adiposity in adolescents from two cohorts in different socioeconomic contexts.MethodsData from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC, United Kingdom) and the 1993 Pelotas Cohort (Brazil) were used. Six ACEs were assessed in both cohorts up to age 15. At 15 years, body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) were measured, and at 18 years, BMI, fat mass index, and android fat percentage were assessed.ResultsFew associations were observed between ACEs and adiposity at 15 years, and they were not consistent across cohorts. For adiposity at age 15 in ALSPAC, physical abuse had a positive association with WC, and domestic violence had a positive association with both WC and BMI. A dose‐response relationship between the ACE score and both WC and BMI at 15 years was observed in ALSPAC. In the 1993 Pelotas Cohort, the associations found in crude analysis were no longer evident after adjustment.ConclusionsThis study found some evidence of an association between an ACE score and adiposity in adolescence in a United Kingdom cohort but no evidence of association in a Brazilian cohort. Residual confounding or context‐specific relationships could explain the different pattern of associations.

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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Adiposity in Adolescents: A Cross‐Cohort Comparison

Soares

Matijasevich

Menezes

et al. 2017

Obesity

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“…Development of some of these disorders may be related to contextual factors. For example, youth exposed to adverse family experiences (e.g., incarcerated or mentally ill parent, witnessing domestic violence) are also at greater risk of developing obesity during both childhood and adolescence (Lynch et al., ). Furthermore, growing up in a harsh family climate is associated with faster increases in inflammatory markers during adolescence (G. E. Miller & Chen ).…”

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Conceptualizing Puberty as a Window of Opportunity for Impacting Health and Well‐Being Across the Life Span

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Susman

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We promote the perspective that puberty, a separate biological process embedded in adolescence, is a "window of opportunity" for understanding and impacting health and development. First, we include a brief overview of pubertal change. Second, we propose a critical role for puberty in shaping life span health due to its connections with early life precursors, health issues and risks emerging during puberty, and health in young adulthood and beyond. Next, we discuss the importance of puberty measures in developmental research and suggest ways to make the science of puberty an important standalone research entity, as well as an essential component of studies conducted during adolescence. Finally, we discuss measurement issues, novel theoretical models of puberty, and the necessity of adopting an interdisciplinary perspective in research on puberty and in adolescence more broadly.Requests for reprints should be sent to Lorah D. Dorn, The

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“…Senere studier har bekreftet disse sammenhengene for seksuelt misbruk, andre former for vold, emosjonell mishandling eller vanskjøtsel og rusmisbruk i hjemmet (3, 7, 9). Relasjonsbrudd i form av tidlig tap av en forelder øker risikoen for fedmeutvikling, uavhengig av andre belastende livshendelser (25,26). Mobbing og fedme er gjensidig assosiert (27,28).…”

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Adverse family experiences and obesity in children and adolescents in the United States

Cited by 39 publications

References 32 publications

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Adiposity in Adolescents: A Cross‐Cohort Comparison

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Adiposity in Adolescents: A Cross‐Cohort Comparison

Conceptualizing Puberty as a Window of Opportunity for Impacting Health and Well‐Being Across the Life Span

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