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July 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda FRIDAY, July 20 (HealthDay News) — Middle-aged women who
suffered physical abuse as children may be at increased risk for diabetes
and heart disease, a new study suggests.
Researchers examined nearly 350 black and white women in the Pittsburgh
area who were between 42 to 52 years old at the start of the study. About
34 percent of the women said they had been victims of some form of
childhood abuse.
Compared to other women in the study, which was published online in the
journal Health Psychology, those with a history of childhood
physical abuse were about twice as likely to have high blood pressure,
high blood sugar, a larger waistline and poor cholesterol levels.
Collectively, these health issues are known as metabolic syndrome.
Previous research suggests that people with metabolic syndrome are at
increased risk for heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
The link between childhood physical abuse and metabolic syndrome was
separate from traditional risk factors for the syndrome, such as smoking,
lack of physical activity, menopause, alcohol use and depression. This
persistent association suggests that abuse plays a unique role in women’s
cardiovascular health, the researchers said.
“Our research shows us that childhood abuse can have long-lasting
consequences — even decades later — on women’s health, and is related to
more health problems down the road,” study co-author Aimee Midei, a
graduate student in psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, said in a
journal news release.
“It’s possible that women with histories of physical abuse engage in
unhealthy eating behaviors or have poor stress regulation,” Midei said.
“It appears that psychology plays a role in physical health even when
we’re talking about traumatic incidents that happened when these women
were children.”
Although the study found an association between childhood physical
abuse and an increased occurrence of metabolic syndrome later in life, it
did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship. The study also found no
association between childhood sexual and emotional abuse and metabolic
syndrome.
More information
The American Academy of Family Physicians has more about metabolic syndrome.
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