Table 1. Association between childhood trauma and telomere length.

Types of childhood abuse	Median (IQR)	% of sample with CT	Spearman’s correlation*	p-value
Entire sample (n=92)†
Physical abuse	7 (6-8)	25	-0.008	0.939
Emotional abuse	8 (6-10)	39	-0.017	0.874
Sexual abuse	5 (5-5)	13	0.011	0.918
Emotional neglect	6 (6-10)	42	0.042	0.689
Group without depressive symptoms (n=52, 57%)‡
Physical abuse	6 (6-7)	12	-0.011	0.443
Emotional abuse	7 (6-8)	14	0.072	0.619
Sexual abuse	5 (5-5)	4	-0.054	0.736
Emotional neglect	7 (5-8)	22	-0.008	0.954
Group with depressive symptoms (n=40, 43%)§
Physical abuse	8 (6-11)	40	0.166	0.293
Emotional abuse	10 (8-15)	69	0.102	0.520
Sexual abuse	5 (5-7)	24	0.428	0.002†
Emotional neglect	10 (7-13)	67	0.265	0.090

CT = childhood trauma; IQR = interquartile range.

^*Bivariate correlations between types of childhood abuse and TL.

^†Significant after Bonferroni correction for multiple testing.

^†Mean age = 21 (standard deviation = 3), 76% women.

^‡Mean age = 21 (standard deviation = 3), 69% women.

^§Mean age = 21 (standard deviation = 3), 85% women.