Women's experience of abuse in childhood and their children's smoking and overweight.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smoking and overweight are principal determinants of poor health for which individual-level interventions are at best modestly effective. This limited effectiveness may be partly because these risk factors are patterned by parents' experiences preceding the individual's birth.

Purpose

To determine whether women's experience of abuse in childhood was associated with smoking and overweight in their children.

Methods

In 2012, data were linked from two large longitudinal cohorts of women (Nurses' Health Study II [NHSII], n=12,666) and their children (Growing Up Today [GUTS] Study, n=16,774), 1989-2010. ORs of children following higher-risk smoking trajectories and risk ratios (RRs) of children's overweight and obesity by their mother's childhood experience of p

SUBMITTER: Roberts AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3962663 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature