Is the childhood home food environment a confounder of the association between child maltreatment exposure and adult body mass index?
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Childhood maltreatment is consistently associated with adult obesity, leading to calls for tailored weight interventions for people with maltreatment histories. However, it is possible that the maltreatment-obesity association is spurious and driven by unmeasured confounding, in which case such interventions would be misplaced. The home food environment in childhood is a potential confounder, but its role in the association of maltreatment with obesity has not been examined. We used a longitudinal dataset (Project EAT) to examine the association of adult retrospective reports of maltreatment history in childhood (1+ types of maltreatment before age 18 years) with previously-collected prospective childhood reports of home food environment characteristics (availability of healthy foods, availability of sweet/salty snack food, family meal frequency, and food insufficiency). We then estimated the association between maltreatment and adult body mass index (BMI, kg/m 2) with and without adjustment for these home food environment factors. After adjustment for sociodemographics, maltreatment had a 0.84 kg/m 2 (95% CI: 0.28, 1.41) higher BMI at age 24-39 years, compared to those with no maltreatment, after adjustment for sociodemographics, parenting style, and BMI in childhood. Additional adjustment for home food environment factors had little effect on this association (β = 0.78 kg/m 2; 95% CI: 0.21,1.35), suggesting limited confounding influence of the home food environment factors. Findings provide additional robust evidence that childhood maltreatment is a risk factor for obesity that may warrant tailored interventions.
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The maltreatment-obesity association is not spurious due to confounding through the home food environment; testing found limited confounding influence.
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- Authors
- Mason, S. M., Santaularia, N. J., Berge, J. M., Larson, N., & Neumark-Sztainer, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mason, S.M.
- Venue
- Preventive Medicine
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-05
- Volume
- 110
- Pages
- 86-92
- ISSN
- 0091-7435 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5851654
- OpenAlex
- W2789582792
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 50
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 3.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Preventive Medicine (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL116892)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (K12HD055887, P2CHD041023)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Keywords
- child abuse, adult obesity, body mass index, home food environment, confounding, food availability, family meal frequency, food insufficiency, snacks, Project EAT
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Child Abuse, Feeding Behavior, Female, Food, Humans, Male, Obesity, Retrospective Studies, Socioeconomic Factors, Body Mass Index
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