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

• Main Authors: Mifuyu Akasaki (Author), Owen Nicholas (Author), Jessica Abell (Author), Carlos A. Valencia-Hernández (Author), Rebecca Hardy (Author), Andrew Steptoe (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...