. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: Psychosom Med. 2010 Dec 10;73(1):16–22. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31820573b6

Table 1.

Additive and multiplicative effects of childhood abuse and adversity on telomere length and cytokine levels. Results were adjusted for age, sex, BMI, marital status, and caregiving status.

	Telomere length		IL-6		TNF-α
	F	p	F	p	F	p
Abuse	2.26	.14	2.45	.003	1.90	.17
Adversity	3.13	.05	.81	.42	3.58	.03
Abuse* Adversity	1.43	.25	2.56	.08	.09	.92