Child Maltreatment and Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Child Maltreatment and Cardiovascular Disease Risk
This grant (R01HL158577; PI: Schreier) takes advantage of a large, well-characterized, prospective cohort of youth who were recently investigated for child maltreatment and comparison youth without a maltreatment history to better understand the physiological mechanisms between early adversity and cardiovascular diseases risk. By taking advantage of detailed assessments of immune function coupled with administrative health care records and thorough behavioral and psychosocial assessments, we will prospectively examine links between child maltreatment and cardiovascular disease risk, with the hopes of informing future prevention and intervention efforts.
Research Team
Christine Heim, Ph.D.
Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Hannah M. C. Schreier, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Idan Shalev, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Mark T. Greenberg Early Career Professor for the Study of Children's Health and Development
Jennie G. Noll, Ph.D.
The Ken Young Family Professor for Healthy Children
Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Director: Center for Safe and Healthy Children
Principal Investigator: NICHD P50 Capstone Center for Healthy Children