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1-037 - Developmental Influences on Cardiometabolic Risk in the Early Lifespan
Thu, March 21, 9:30 to 11:00am, Baltimore Convention Center, Floor: Level 3, Room 350Session Type: Paper Symposium
Integrative Statement
Cardiometabolic risk (CMR) factors—including obesity, elevated lipids, hypertension and elevated systemic inflammation—have reached unprecedented rates among young people in the United States and are also an increasing public health problem in low and middle income countries. CMR not only predicts poor physical health, but also influences future social, emotional, cognitive, and academic development. To date, CMR is understudied during the early life-span and relatively little is known about its developmental origins. This interdisciplinary symposium fills this gap in research, drawing on four samples from diverse backgrounds.
Paper 1 shows that adolescents with a history of institutional rearing and high and stable levels of externalizing problems between ages 8 to 16 are at increased risk for elevated inflammation. Paper 2 reports that specific emerging self-regulatory skills in the emotional, behavioral, attentional, and cognitive domains from ages 2 to 7 uniquely predict late adolescent latent profiles of CMR factors. Paper 3 draws on a large nationally representative longitudinal study and shows that self-regulation at age 2 predicts obesity at age 5.5, but that these predictions differ by sex of the child and maternal education. Finally, Paper 4 examines inflammation in children in a high-poverty context in rural Nicaragua, finding that children of mothers with higher allostatic load and food insecurity displayed higher levels of systemic inflammation.
Together, the contributions to this symposium shed new light on developmental influences on CMR in the early life-span, highlighting especially the roles of multiple facets of childhood self-regulation and maternal biological and educational factors.
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Externalizing trajectories predict elevated inflammation among adolescents exposed to early institutional rearing - Presenting Author: Alva Tang, University of Maryland, College Park; Non-Presenting Author: Natalie Slopen, 2School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park; Non-Presenting Author: Charles A. Nelson, Harvard Medical School; Non-Presenting Author: Charles Zeanah, Tulane University; Non-Presenting Author: Nathan Fox, University of Maryland
Emerging self-regulatory skills in childhood predict cardiometabolic risk in adolescence - Presenting Author: Jessica Dollar, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Non-Presenting Author: Laurie Wideman, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Non-Presenting Author: Susan Calkins, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Non-Presenting Author: Lenka Shriver, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Non-Presenting Author: Susan Phillips Keane, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Non-Presenting Author: Lilly Shanahan, Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich
Understanding gender-differences in the association of toddler self-regulation with obesity at kindergarten-age - Presenting Author: Sarah E Anderson, The Ohio State University; Non-Presenting Author: Robert Whitaker, Public Health and Pediatrics, Temple University; Columbia Bassett Program
Maternal distress and child inflammation in a high stress setting - Presenting Author: Kammi Schmeer, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University; Non-Presenting Author: Jason DeCaro, University of Alabama; Non-Presenting Author: Barbara Piperata, Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University; Non-Presenting Author: Warren Wilson, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary