Childhood Maltreatment and BMI Trajectory: The Mediating Role of Depression.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Childhood maltreatment is associated with later obesity, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. The objective of this study was to estimate the extent to which depression mediates the associations between childhood maltreatment and BMI in adolescence through adulthood.

Methods

Data on a cohort of 13,362 adolescents in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Wave I [1994-1995] to Wave IV [2008-2009]) were analyzed in 2015-2016. Classes of maltreatment experienced prior to age 12 years were statistically identified using latent class analysis. Gender-stratified latent growth curve analysis was used to estimate total effects of maltreatment classes on latent BMI trajectory (aged 13-31 years) and indirect effects of maltreatment classes th

SUBMITTER: Sacks RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5679065 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature