Adults who experienced various forms of maltreatment in their childhood appear to have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, suggests research published online in the journalA team of international researchers found that women were more likely to have heart disease following a childhood that involved maltreatment including physical abuse, sexual abuse, or neglect.
Researchers, therefore, led by Dr Ana Gonçalves Soares from the University of Bristol’s Medical School set out to assess and compare associations between childhood maltreatment and cardiovascular disease in men and women in the United Kingdom as well as possible age differences and associations with early onset CVD.
CVD outcomes – defined as any cardiovascular disease, hypertensive disease, ischaemic heart disease , and cerebrovascular disease – were extracted from self-reports, blood pressure measurements, hospital registers and death registers. Women were also more likely to experience a higher number of types of childhood maltreatment – 4.6% of women experienced four or more types of maltreatment, compared with 2.7% of men.
The authors acknowledged some limitations to their study such as the possibility of selection bias from the participants, and those involved were predominantly white, more likely to live in less deprived areas, and healthier with lower disease rates than the general British population. “Interventions that ameliorate the negative effects of childhood maltreatment are needed, as well as more understanding of the pathways that link childhood maltreatment to CVD and whether they differ by sex, types of maltreatment and CVD types.”
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