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Using a prospective cohort design, children with court substantiated cases of physical and sexual abuse and neglect (ages 0\u201311 years) from a Midwest county during 1967\u20131971 (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 410) were matched with children without histories of abuse or neglect on age, sex, race\/ethnicity and approximate family social class (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 303) and followed up and assessed at mean age 41. Outcome measures include BMI and obesity assessed in 2003\u20132004 as part of a medical status examination and interview. Childhood physical abuse predicted significantly higher BMI scores in adulthood (\u03b2 = 0.14, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.05), even controlling for demographic characteristics, cigarette smoking, and alcohol consumption (\u03b2 = 0.16, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.01). Childhood sexual abuse (\u03b2 = 0.07, not significant) and neglect (\u03b2 = 0.02, not significant) were not significant predictors of adult BMI scores. 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