Early growth, stress, and socioeconomic factors as predictors of the rate of multimorbidity accumulation across the life course: a longitudinal birth cohort study.

Autor: Haapanen MJ; Public Health Research Program, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland; Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: markus.haapanen@helsinki.fi., Vetrano DL; Aging Research Center, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; Stockholm Gerontology Research Center, Stockholm, Sweden., Mikkola TM; Public Health Research Program, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland; Clinicum, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Population Health Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland., Calderón-Larrañaga A; Aging Research Center, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; Stockholm Gerontology Research Center, Stockholm, Sweden., Dekhtyar S; Aging Research Center, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden., Kajantie E; Population Health Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland; Clinical Medicine Research Unit, Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; Children's Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway., Eriksson JG; Public Health Research Program, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland; Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Human Potential Translational Research Programme, National University Singapore, Singapore; Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore., von Bonsdorff MB; Public Health Research Program, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland; Gerontology Research Center and Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The lancet. Healthy longevity [Lancet Healthy Longev] 2024 Jan; Vol. 5 (1), pp. e56-e65. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 13.
DOI: 10.1016/S2666-7568(23)00231-3
Abstrakt: Background: Early growth, stress, and socioeconomic factors are associated with future risk of individual chronic diseases. It is uncertain whether they also affect the rate of multimorbidity accumulation later in life. This study aimed to explore whether early life factors are associated with the rate at which chronic diseases are accumulated across older age.
Methods: In this national birth cohort study, we studied people born at Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland between Jan 1, 1934, and Dec 31, 1944, who attended child welfare clinics in the city, and were living in Finland in 1971. Individuals who had died or emigrated from Finland before 1987 were excluded, alongside participants without any registry data and who died before the end of the registry follow-up on Dec 31, 2017. Early anthropometry, growth, wartime parental separation, and socioeconomic factors were recorded from birth, child welfare clinic, or school health-care records, and Finnish National Archives. International Classification of Diseases codes of diagnoses for chronic diseases were obtained from the Care Register for Health Care starting from 1987 (when participants were aged 42-53 years) until 2017. Linear mixed models were used to study the association between early-life factors and the rate of change in the number of chronic diseases over 10-year periods.
Findings: From Jan 1, 1934, to Dec 31, 2017, 11 689 people (6064 [51·9%] men and 5625 [48·1%] women) were included in the study. Individuals born to mothers younger than 25 years (β 0·09; 95% CI 0·06-0·12), mothers with a BMI of 25-30 kg/m 2 (0·08; 0·05-0·10), and mothers with a BMI more than 30 kg/m 2 (0·26; 0·21-0·31) in late pregnancy accumulated chronic diseases faster than those born to older mothers (25-30 years) and those with a BMI of less than 25 kg/m 2 . Individuals with a birthweight less than 2·5 kg (0·17; 0·10-0·25) and those with a rapid growth in height and weight from birth until age 11 years accumulated chronic diseases faster during their life course. Additionally, paternal occupational class (manual workers vs upper-middle class 0·27; 0·23-0·30) and wartime parental separation (0·24; 0·19-0·29 for boys; 0·31; 0·25-0·36 for girls) were associated with a faster rate of chronic disease accumulation.
Interpretation: Our findings suggest that the foundation for accumulating chronic diseases is established early in life. Early interventions might be needed for vulnerable populations, including war evacuee children and children with lower socioeconomic status.
Funding: Finska Läkaresällskapet, Liv och Hälsa rf, the Finnish Pediatric Research Foundation, and Folkhälsan Research Center.
Translations: For the Finnish and Swedish translations of the abstract see Supplementary Materials section.
Competing Interests: Declaration of interests MJH reports research grants for the submitted work from Medicinska Understödsföreningen Liv och Hälsa, Finska Läkaresällskapet, and the Finnish Pediatric Research Foundation. EK reports funding from the Academy of Finland, the Finnish Pediatric Research Foundation, Sigrid Jusélius Foundation, the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation, the Finnish Foundation for Cardiovascular Research, the Finnish Diabetes Research Foundation, Finska Läkaresällskapet, Novo Nordisk Foundation, and the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation. JGE reports funding from the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation, Samfundet Folkhälsan, Finska Läkaresällskapet, Medicinska Understödsföreningen Liv och Hälsa, the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme, the EU Horizon 2020 programme, and the Academy of Finland. MBvB reports research grants from the Academy of Finland. All other authors declare no competing interests.
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