Association between self-reported child maltreatment and risk of hospital-treated infectious diseases in middle-aged and older adults: A UK Biobank cohort study.
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Abstract
Objective: This study aimed to explore the association between child maltreatment and hospital-treated infectious diseases in middle-aged and older adults.
Methods: 145,151 participants aged 38-72 years from the UK Biobank between 2006 and 2010 were enrolled and interviewed. Child maltreatment included five types: physical abuse, physical neglect, emotional abuse, emotional neglect, and sexual abuse. Patterns of maltreatment were identified using latent class analysis (LCA). Cox regression was employed to estimate the associations between child maltreatment (number of types, individual types, and patterns) and infectious diseases. Further, we evaluated potential mediators using mediation analysis.
Results: Over a median follow-up of 13.4 years, 22,688 participants (12.26 per 1000 person-years) were hospitalized for an infectious disease. Participants reporting any maltreatment had elevated infectious diseases risk (HR 1.18, 95 % CI: 1.15-1.21) than those without maltreatment. A dose-response relationship was observed between the number of maltreatment types and infectious disease (one, HR 1.09 [95 % CI 1.06-1.13]; two, HR 1.17 [95 % CI 1.12-1.23]; three to five, HR 1.48 [95 %CI 1.41-1.55]; Ptrend < 0.001). Each type of maltreatment was associated with increased infectious diseases risk. LCA identified four patterns (low maltreatment, child neglect, child abuse, and poly-maltreatment), with those experiencing poly-maltreatment exhibiting the highest infectious diseases risk (HR 1.51, 95 % CI: 1.43-1.59). The association between child maltreatment and infectious diseases was mediated by C-reactive protein, phenotypic age acceleration, loneliness, psychiatric disorders, and unhealthy lifestyles.
Conclusions: Child maltreatment may increase susceptibility to a broad spectrum of infectious diseases in adulthood, highlighting the need for early-life maltreatment prevention policies.
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Founded in 1972 by Ernst Wynder, Preventive Medicine is an international scholarly journal that provides prompt publication of original articles on the science and practice of disease prevention, health promotion, and public health policymaking. Preventive Medicine aims to reward innovation. It will favor insightful observational studies, thoughtful explorations of health data, unsuspected new angles for existing hypotheses, robust randomized controlled trials, and impartial systematic reviews. Preventive Medicine''s ultimate goal is to publish research that will have an impact on the work of practitioners of disease prevention and health promotion, as well as of related disciplines.
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