Table 6. Association between the type of life events experienced before age 16 and elevated hsCRP at age 16.

	Elevated hsCRP >at age 16
	OR	95% CI	B	s.e.	P-value
Verbal abuse score
Unadjusted	1.19	1.00–1.42	0.17	0.09	0.049
Demographicsa	1.19	0.99–1.42	0.17	0.09	0.059
Health behaviorsb	1.2	0.99–1.45	0.18	0.1	0.064
Physical abuse score
Unadjusted	1.09	0.91–1.29	0.08	0.08	0.343
Demographicsa	1.09	0.92–1.30	0.09	0.09	0.308
Health behaviorsb	1.04	0.87–1.24	0.04	0.09	0.685
Sexual abuse score
Unadjusted	1.22	1.07–1.40	0.2	0.07	0.004
Demographicsa	1.18	1.03–1.36	0.17	0.07	0.019
Health behaviorsb	1.11	0.95–1.31	0.11	0.08	0.198
Separation trauma score
Unadjusted	1.27	1.07–1.52	0.24	0.09	0.008
Demographicsa	1.25	1.05–1.50	0.23	0.09	0.015
Health behaviorsb	1.26	1.04–1.53	0.23	0.1	0.02

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; CI, confidence interval; hsCRP, high-sensitive C-reactive protein; SES, socioeconomic status

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^aAdjusted for sex, ethnicity and SES.

^bAdjusted for sex, ethnicity, SES, BMI, nicotine use and alcohol use.

hsCRP was tested in the sample of which we had data on life events (N=976); elevated hsCRP was defined with a cutoff of 2.0 mg l⁻¹. The life events scores were obtained by calculating z-scores.