Height deficit in early adulthood following substantiated childhood maltreatment: A birth cohort study

Amanuel Alemu Abajobir; Steve Kisely; Gail Williams; Lane Strathearn; Jake Moses Najman

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2016.12.010

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Height deficit in early adulthood following substantiated childhood maltreatment: A birth cohort study

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Height deficit in early adulthood following substantiated childhood maltreatment: A birth cohort study

Amanuel Alemu Abajobir, Steve Kisely, Gail Williams, Lane Strathearn and Jake Moses Najman

Child abuse & neglect, Vol.64, pp.71-78

02/2017

DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2016.12.010

PMID: 28039757

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Early life stress including childhood maltreatment has been associated with reduced head circumference and/or brain size, cognitive, and academic deficits in children and adolescents. However, little is known about the effect of childhood maltreatment on height, especially in early adulthood. This study was designed to examine the association between confirmed cases of multiple or subtypes of childhood maltreatment and stunted growth in young adulthood controlling for perinatal and familial confounding factors. A total of 2661 (48.4% female) young adults from the Mater Hospital-University Study of Pregnancy (MUSP) had data on standardised height-for-age score measurement as part of physical assessment at the 21-year follow-up. Prospectively substantiated cases of childhood maltreatment, 0–14 years of age, were linked to the MUSP dataset. Ethical approval was obtained from the Human Ethics Review Committee of The University of Queensland and the Mater Hospital. Multiple regression analyses were performed to determine the effects of childhood maltreatment on height in young adults. Childhood physical or emotional abuse and neglect were significantly associated with a deficit in height in young adulthood after controlling for perinatal and familial confounders. Multiple incidents of childhood maltreatment also were associated with a deficit in height.

Substantiated childhood maltreatment

Height deficit

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Title: Subtitle: Height deficit in early adulthood following substantiated childhood maltreatment: A birth cohort study
Creators: Amanuel Alemu Abajobir - School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Public Health Building, Herston 4006, Queensland, Australia
Steve Kisely - School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital, 199 Ipswich Road, Woolloongabba 4102, Queensland, Australia
Gail Williams - School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Public Health Building, Herston 4006, Queensland, Australia
Lane Strathearn - Department of Paediatrics, Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Jake Moses Najman - School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Public Health Building, Herston 4006, Queensland, Australia
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Child abuse & neglect, Vol.64, pp.71-78
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2016.12.010
PMID: 28039757
NLM abbreviation: Child Abuse Negl
ISSN: 0145-2134
eISSN: 1873-7757
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Grant note: name: Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy mother-child pairs, the research team; name: National Health and Medical Research Council and Australian Research Council; name: Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy; name: International Postgraduate Scholarships of the Australian government; DOI: 10.13039/501100001794, name: The University of Queensland
Language: English
Date published: 02/2017
Academic Unit: Psychiatry; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics; Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Record Identifier: 9984040573702771

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