GHN Editor - “Child
abuse can leave an enduring imprint on health in adulthood,” clinicians
remind us, finding recently a link with it and type 2 diabetes in
adulthood.
abuse can leave an enduring imprint on health in adulthood,” clinicians
remind us, finding recently a link with it and type 2 diabetes in
adulthood.
“Much,
although not all, of this association is explained by the greater
weight gain of girls with a history of abuse,” said Janet
Rich-Edwards, lead study author of a study of 70,000 women that found an association between abuse in
childhood and adolescence and the risk of type 2 diabetes later on in
life.
Rich-Edwards
explains further,“The weight gain seems to start in teenage years and
continues into adulthood, increasing the risk of diabetes.”
She
added, “Weight gain explained only 60 percent of the association,
however, implying that the experience of abuse gets incorporated into
the body through other mechanisms, as well.”
added, “Weight gain explained only 60 percent of the association,
however, implying that the experience of abuse gets incorporated into
the body through other mechanisms, as well.”
In
her position as director of developmental epidemiology at the Connors
Center for Women's Health and Bender Biology at Brigham and Women's
Hospital, she has been among a number of clinicians seeking to find the
answers to diabetes and childhood obesity as well as health risk factors
that develop that can cause problems later in life.
her position as director of developmental epidemiology at the Connors
Center for Women's Health and Bender Biology at Brigham and Women's
Hospital, she has been among a number of clinicians seeking to find the
answers to diabetes and childhood obesity as well as health risk factors
that develop that can cause problems later in life.
“We
need to understand how this happens,” she said. “One theory is that
abused women develop disordered eating habits as a compensatory stress
behavior, leading to excess weight gain. Another theory suggests that
child abuse may increase levels of stress hormones that later cause
weight gain and insulin resistance, characteristic of diabetes.”
need to understand how this happens,” she said. “One theory is that
abused women develop disordered eating habits as a compensatory stress
behavior, leading to excess weight gain. Another theory suggests that
child abuse may increase levels of stress hormones that later cause
weight gain and insulin resistance, characteristic of diabetes.”
The study appears online and in the December issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Rich-Edwards
outlined one of the benefits of the study as this: “We hope to alert
clinicians to the possible role of abuse in the histories of some
patients that they see with pre-diabetes and diabetes. We also need to
help families prevent child abuse and we need to learn the best ways to
outlined one of the benefits of the study as this: “We hope to alert
clinicians to the possible role of abuse in the histories of some
patients that they see with pre-diabetes and diabetes. We also need to
help families prevent child abuse and we need to learn the best ways to
reduce the long-term health burden that it imposes.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Say something constructive. Negative remarks and name-calling are not allowed.