Adversity in childhood and measures of aging in midlife: Findings from a cohort of british women.

ABSTRACT: Very few studies have assessed whether socioeconomic and psychosocial adversity during childhood are associated with objective measures of aging later in life. We assessed associations of socioeconomic position (SEP) and total psychosocial adversity during childhood, with objectively measured cognitive and physical capability in women during midlife. Adverse childhood experiences were retrospectively reported at mean ages 28-30 years in women from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents And Children (N = 2,221). We investigated associations of childhood SEP and total psychosocial adversity, with composite measures of cognitive and physical capability at mean age 51 years. There was evidence that, compared with participants whose fathers had professional occupations, participants whose fathe

SUBMITTER: Anderson EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5592847 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature