Exposure to Violence and Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness in Mexican Women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Violence against women has become a global public health threat. Data on the potential impact of exposure to violence on cardiovascular disease are scarce.

Methods and results

We evaluated the association between exposure to violence and subclinical cardiovascular disease in 634 disease-free women from the Mexican Teachers' Cohort who responded to violence-related items from the Life Stressor Checklist and underwent measures of carotid artery intima-media thickness in 2012 and 2013. We defined exposure to violence as having ever been exposed to physical and/or sexual violence. Intima-media thickness was log-transformed, and subclinical carotid atherosclerosis was defined as intima-media thickness ≥0.8 mm or plaque. We used multivariable linear and logistic regress

SUBMITTER: Flores-Torres MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5586461 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature