The Impact of Early Life Stress on Anxiety Symptoms in Late Adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Early life stress (ELS) may increase the risk of anxiety throughout the life course. Whether this effect extends to late adulthood is poorly known. In our study comprising 1872 participants from the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study born in 1934-1944, we investigated the association of various forms of ELS and their accumulation with self-reported anxiety symptoms at the age of 65-77 years. Data on childhood socioeconomic status and separation from parents were based on national registers for all participants. Information on self-reported emotional and physical trauma, parental divorce, and death of a family member in childhood was obtained from 1277 participants. We found that experiencing emotional trauma, physical trauma, and low socioeconomic status in childhood were associated with increase

SUBMITTER: Lahdepuro A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6416302 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature