Table 1.
Characteristics of the 1958 British birth cohort study.
Table 2.
Mean difference (95%CI) in BMI (kg/m2) and OR (95% CI) for obesity at each age by childhood maltreatment (unadjusted).
Fig 1.
Difference in mean BMI (kg/m2) and OR for obesity (95% CIs) from 7 to 50y by physical abuse† in males and females.
Footnotes: † participant report in adulthood (45y) that they had been physically abused by a parent during their childhood before 16y, i.e. punched, kicked or hit or beaten with an object, or needed medical treatment.
Table 3.
Characteristics of those with no childhood maltreatment† and those abused or neglected (%).
Table 4.
Mean differences in zBMI (95% CIs) at 7y and rate of change in zBMI (7–50y) by childhood maltreatment, estimated using multilevel models.
Fig 2.
Difference in mean zBMI by childhood physical abuse† from fully adjusted models, males and females*.
Footnotes: † participant report in adulthood (45y) that they had been physically abused by a parent during their childhood before 16y, i.e. punched, kicked or hit or beaten with an object, or needed medical treatment. *Difference in mean zBMI by childhood physical abuse estimated from fully adjusted models; showing equivalent differences in BMI (kg/m2) at 7y, 33y and 45y. The positive linear association of zBMI gain with age and physical abuse is given as ~0.006/y (males) and ~0.007/y (females) in Table 4.