A-CHILD Study: Association of Childhood Adversity with Adolescent Cholesterol Levels

1,460 Japanese adolescents were followed from elementary through junior high school from 2015 to 2022. The data, authored by Floret Maame Owusu and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license, examines the longitudinal association between adverse childhood experiences and cholesterol levels measured in grade 8. 60% of the cohort experienced at least one ACE during elementary school.

Use Cases

• Modeling the association between cumulative adverse childhood experiences and adolescent cholesterol levels based on longitudinal data.
• Investigating the specific effects of physical abuse and poverty on high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol.
• Conducting secondary analyses adjusting for covariates like sex, maternal age, parental education, and child behavioral difficulties.

Strengths

• Longitudinal design tracking 1,460 students from 2015 to 2022.
• Includes objective cholesterol measurements from blood samples taken during school health checkups.
• Analysis adjusts for multiple confounders including sex, maternal age, and parental education.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is limited to a single city (Adachi City, Tokyo), which may affect generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Adachi Child Health Impact of Living Difficulty (A-CHILD) study.

Collection Method

Population-based longitudinal study using surveys and blood samples from school health checkups.

Time Range

2015 to 2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-13 05:48:47; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Adachi City, Tokyo, Japan