Child maltreatment and hypertension in young adulthood.

摘要: Background: Maltreatment during childhood and adolescence has been associated with chronic conditions in adulthood including cardiovascular disease. However, less is known about the effects of maltreatment on risk factors prior to development disease, or whether these are evident young adulthood. Furthermore, few studies have examined sex differences most relied self-reported outcome measures that subject misclassification. Methods: We relationship between child hypertension National Longitudinal Study Adolescent Health, a nationally representative school-based sample US adolescents. Participants retrospectively (mean age 29.9, n = 11384) reported their experiences 6 th grade (prior 11) follow-up. Child neglect, physical sexual violence as well measure social services visits home were examined. Blood pressure was measured an in-home visit. Hypertension defined SBP at least 140 mmHg DBP 90 mmHG adulthood, use antihypertensive medications. Results: In adjusted models, women who experienced abuse early had higher prevalence (Prevalence Ratio (PR) 1.43 95% CI 1.00, 2.05) compared did not experience abuse. Among men, experiencing statistically significantly hypertension. Experiencing having visitations by among either men. Conclusion: Sexual women.