Sensitive periods for psychosocial risk in childhood and adolescence and cardiometabolic outcomes in young adulthood

Greater psychosocial risk in childhood and adolescence predicts poorer cardiometabolic outcomes in adulthood. We assessed whether the timing of psychosocial risk from infancy through adolescence predicts cardiometabolic outcomes in young adulthood. Young adults and their mothers participated in a longitudinal study beginning in infancy in Santiago, Chile ( N = 1040). At infancy, 5 years, 10 years, and adolescence, mothers reported on depressive...