Invited Commentary: Biomarkers for Mortality Among Individuals With a History of Out-of-Home Care—Implications for Study Design and Conceptualizations of Risk

Out-of-home care in childhood and adolescence has been shown to be associated with elevated risk for all-cause mortality in adulthood, with adverse socioeconomic, psychosocial, and health-related trajectories hypothesized to mediate this relationship. In the research letter by Batty and Hamer (Am J Epidemiol. 2021;190(1):176–178), the authors used data from the 1970 British birth cohort (n = 8,581) to examine risk of biomarkers for mortality in...