Childhood psychological distress as a mediator in the relationship between early-life social disadvantage and adult cardiometabolic risk: Evidence from the 1958 British birth cohort

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1019-1030

  Winning, Ashley ^a,c   Glymour, M Maria ^b   McCormick, Marie C ^a   Gilsanz, Paola ^a   Kubzansky, Laura D ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Research and Evaluation Department   (United States)

Author keywords

biomarkers; mediation; prospective cohort

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; DIET; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FAMILY STRESS; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; OBESITY; PARENTAL DEATH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILDHOOD TRAUMA SURVIVOR; COMPLICATION; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ADVERSE EVENTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84992124458     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000409     Document Type: Article

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