Hee-Jin Jun

TL;DR: Severe child abuse is a prevalent risk for early adult CVD that is partially mediated by preventable risk factors and was stronger for unconfirmed self-reported events than end points that were corroborated with additional information or medical record review.

TL;DR: Possible mechanisms that may explain the protective effect against smoking of being foreign born and being second generation with two immigrant parents, including differences in the stage of the tobacco epidemic between immigrants' countries of origin and the US, the "healthy immigrant effect", and anti-smoking socialization in immigrant families are discussed.

TL;DR: Experience of PTSD symptoms is associated with an increased risk of becoming overweight or obese, and PTSD symptom onset alters BMI trajectories over time, which should raise clinician concerns about physical health problems that may develop and prompt closer attention to weight status.

TL;DR: Among sexual minority youth, living in low structural stigma states was associated with a lower risk of cigarette smoking after adjustment for individual-level risk factors and structural stigma was not associated with past-year smoking rates.