Exploring the Association Between Trauma, Instability, and Youth Cardiometabolic Health Outcomes Over Three Years.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Childhood adversity plays a fundamental role in predicting youth cardiometabolic health. Our understanding of how adverse experiences in childhood should best be conceptualized remains elusive, based on one-dimensional measures of adversity. The present study fills a major gap in existing research by examining two distinct forms of threat and instability-related exposures that may impact cardiometabolic risk (CMR) in adolescence.

Methods

We explore two specific subtypes of adversity: trauma (e.g., badly hurt, victim of crime, loss of close person) and instability (e.g., moving, change of schools, change in household structure) as differential influences that can accumulate to impact early childhood onset of CMR (body mass index, high-density lipoprotein (HDL), low-de

SUBMITTER: Schuler BR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10873057 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature