Developmental timing of child maltreatment in relation to obesity and substance use disorder in late adolescence.

Objective: Obesity and substance use are leading preventable causes of mortality, yet their origins in violence remain poorly understood. This study examined child maltreatment in relation to obesity and symptoms consistent with substance use disorder (SUD) in late adolescence, determining the roles of the child maltreatment type and timing, and gender.

Methods: The sample ( = 1,161) was drawn from the Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect.

Robust rank-based meta-analyses for two-sample designs with application to platelet counts of malaria infection data.

In this paper, we propose robust meta-analysis procedures for individual studies that report a broad range of robust summary statistics for a two-sample problem. Summary statistics of individual studies could be presented in different forms including full data, medians of the two samples, the Hodges-Lehman and Wilcoxon estimates of the location shift parameters. Data synthesis is made under both fixed-effect and random-effect meta-analysis models.