Adverse childhood experiences and incident coronary heart disease: a counterfactual analysis in the Whitehall II prospective cohort study

Objectives: Adverse childhood experience is thought to be associated with risk of coronary heart disease, but it is not clear which experiences are cardiotoxic, and whether risk increases with the accumulation of adverse childhood experiences. Methods: Participants were 5149 adults (72.6% men) in th...

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Main Authors: Mifuyu Akasaki, Owen Nicholas, Jessica Abell, Carlos A. Valencia-Hernández, Rebecca Hardy, Andrew Steptoe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-09-01
Series:American Journal of Preventive Cardiology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666667721000751