Background: Both adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and lifestyle factors have been associated with risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in later life, but whether and to what extent adherence to a healthy lifestyle in adulthood can offset the increased cardiovascular risk associated with ACEs is unclear. We aimed to determine whether and to what extent adopting to a healthy lifestyle in adulthood can offset the risk of CVDs in individuals according to their ACEs.
Methods: A prospective cohort study included 143,869 participants aged 38-72 years, free of CVDs at baseline from the UK Biobank. The history of ACEs was assessed using the Childhood Trauma Screener. Participants were divided into three risk groups based on ACEs: low (no ACEs), intermediate (one or two ACEs), and high (three or more ACEs). A healthy lifestyle score in adulthood was constructed as the sum of four modifiable lifestyle factors (no smoking, adequate physical activity, healthy diet, no obesity), and participants were then categorized into three groups based on this score (unfavorable [0-1 point], intermediate [2-3 points], favorable [4 points]). Cox proportional hazard models were conducted to investigate the association between ACEs, healthy lifestyle, and incident CVDs.
Results: During a median follow-up of 12.49 years, 13,373 incident cases of overall CVDs were identified. This included 7521 cases of coronary heart disease (CHD), 6175 cases of atrial fibrillation (AF) and 1813 cases of stroke. Individuals with high ACEs had a greater risk of incident overall CVDs (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.39, [95%CI = 1.29 to 1.50]), CHD (1.50 [1.36 to 1.65]) and AF (1.18 [1.05 to 1.33]) compared to those with low ACEs. The risk of CVDs decreased moving from unfavorable to favorable lifestyle categories (P for trend<0.001), with the lowest risk observed among individuals with a favorable lifestyle (0.70 [0.66 to 0.74] for overall CVDs, 0.69 [0.64 to 0.75] for CHD, and 0.71 [0.65 to 0.78] for AF). Participants with high ACEs and a favorable lifestyle had a 39 %, 40 % and 47 % lower risk of developing overall CVDs (0.61 [0.48 to 0.76]), CHD (0.60 [0.44 to 0.81], and AF (0.53 [0.36 to 0.77]) than those with high ACEs and an unfavorable lifestyle.
Conclusions: Having a healthy lifestyle in adulthood could substantially attenuate the increased risk of overall CVDs, CHD, and AF conferred by ACEs.
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