Intergenerational Transmission of Childhood Adversity in Parents and their Children's BMI in the Hispanic Community Children's Health Study/Study of Latino Youth (HCHS/SOL Youth)

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Shakira Suglia, Emory University; Danielle M Crookes, Mailman School of Public Health; Robert Kaplan, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University; Daniela Sotres-Alvarez, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Maria M Llabre, University of Miami; Linda Van Horn, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Mercedes R Carnethon, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Carmen R Isasi, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
• Language: English
• Date: 2020-04-01
• Publisher: Elsevier BV
• Publication Version: Author Accepted Manuscript (After Peer Review)
• Copyright Statement: © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2020.109956
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: Journal of Psychosomatic Research
• Volume: 131
• Start Page: 109956
• End Page: 109956
• Grant/Funding Information: This work was supported by The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [R01HL12576, N01HC65235, and R01HL102130], the National Center for Advancing and Translational Sciences [5UL1TR001073], and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases [P30DK111022].
• Keywords: Childhood; Health Study; Latino Youth

Abstract

Childhood adversities or adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are experiences that threaten a child’s bodily, familial, or social safety or security and broadly encompass experiences of maltreatment, household dysfunction, and exposure to crime [1–5]. Individual childhood adversities as well as cumulative adversities over time have been associated with obesity in childhood [6] and in adulthood [7–9] and increased body mass index (BMI) in adulthood [10].