Aluísio JD Barros

Mental health problems as mediators between childhood trauma and cardiometabolic risk behaviours in the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort

BACKGROUND: Childhood trauma is associated with greater engagement in health risk behaviours (HRBs) that predispose to cardiometabolic disease. However, the mechanisms underlying these associations remain poorly understood. Mental health problems are hypothesised to mediate links...