This population-based study of 21,902 Finnish adults examined whether adulthood risk factors for asthma mediate the association between exposure to multiple adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) assessed retrospectively and new-onset in adulthood. Baseline characteristics, occurrence ACEs, were collected with a postal survey at baseline 1998. The participants linked records on incident from nati...

BACKGROUND The mechanisms underlying socioeconomic inequalities in mortality from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are largely unknown. We studied the contribution of childhood socioeconomic conditions and adulthood risk factors to inequalities in CVD mortality in adulthood. METHODS The prospective GLOBE study was carried out in the Netherlands, with baseline data from 1991, and linked with the ...

To better understand the processes through which eating habits during childhood are carried over into adulthood, I asked question: under what circumstances and patterns do feeding behaviors of parents become replicated emerge as habitual in their children young adulthood? aim to investigate how parenting style parent surrounding food diet influence children’s dietary long-term. Previous researc...

Youth exposure to violence, criminal activities and deviant peer affiliation may impact overall development and the transition into adulthood. Low income African American youth are disproportionately exposed to chronic stressors, but little is known about how they conceptualize challenges and success once they enter adulthood. We examine how low incomes African Americans reflect on exposure to ...

OBJECTIVES There are at least three conceptual models for the effects of the childhood social environment on adult health: the critical period model, the social mobility model, and the cumulative risk model. However, few studies have investigated all three different models within the same setting. This study aims to examine the impact of childhood and adulthood socioeconomic positions and inter...

OBJECTIVES To examine the prevalence of binge drinking in adolescence and its persistence into adulthood in an Australian cohort. DESIGN 15-year prospective cohort study. SETTING Victoria, Australia. PARTICIPANTS 1943 adolescents were recruited from secondary schools at age 14-15 years. PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURES Levels of past-week 'binge' drinking (5+ standard drinks on a day, each 10 g...

chronic granulomatous disease is an inherited defect in intracellular killing of ingested microorganisms characterized by recurrent life threatening bacterial and fungal infections including invasive aspergillosis in early childhood. we report  a  disseminated aspergillosis as  the  representative  of  adult  onset  chronic granulomatous disease without previous infection, with dramatic respons...