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Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
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Background The relationship of health risk behavior and disease in adulthood to the breadth of exposure to childhood emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction during childhood has not previously been described. Methods A questionnaire about adverse childhood experiences was mailed to 13,494 adults who had completed a standardized medical evaluation at a large HMO; 9,508 (70.5%) responded. Seven categories of adverse childhood experiences were studied: psychological, physical, or sexual abuse; violence against mother; or living with household members who were substance abusers, mentally ill or suicidal, or ever imprisoned. The number of categories of these adverse childhood experiences was then compared to measures of adult risk behavior, health status, and disease. Logistic regression was used to adjust for effects of demographic factors on the association between the cumulative number of categories of childhood exposures (range: 0-7) and risk factors for the leading causes of death in adult life. Results More than half of respondents reported at least one, and one-fourth reported > or = 2 categories of childhood exposures. We found a graded relationship between the number of categories of childhood exposure and each of the adult health risk behaviors and diseases that were studied (P or = 50 sexual intercourse partners, and sexually transmitted disease; and 1.4- to 1.6-fold increase in physical inactivity and severe obesity. The number of categories of…
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“Longitudinal follow-up of adults whose childhood abuse was well documented has shown that their retrospective reports of childhood abuse are likely to under-estimate actual occurrence.47,48”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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- Partly supportedcites [47] Femina, 1990, Child abuse, Child Abuse Negl sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results report that eight adults with well-documented abuse in their adolescent records denied it at follow-up, and the Discussion says retrospective inaccuracies in this sample were in the direction of under-reporting. The paper limits that finding to a small sample of former delinquents and says its generalizability is uncertain; the claim does not retain that population qualifier. (LLM, conf=0.82)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [48] Williams, 1995, Recovered memories of abuse in women with documented child sexual victimization histories, J Traumatic Stress source
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“More than half of respondents reported at least one, and one-fourth reported Ն2 categories of childhood exposures.”
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“There was no statistically significant dose-response relationship for a history of stroke or diabetes.”
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“we found a strong, dose-response relationship between the number of childhood exposures and each of the 10 risk factors for the leading causes of death that we studied (P Ͻ .001).”
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“The seven categories of adverse childhood experiences were strongly interrelated and persons with multiple categories of childhood exposure were likely to have multiple health risk factors later in life.”
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“More than half of respondents reported at least one, and one-fourth reported Ն2 categories of childhood exposures.”
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“More than half of respondents (52%) experienced Ն1 category of adverse childhood exposure; 6.2% reported Ն4 exposures.”
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“and a 1.4-to 1.6-fold increase in physical inactivity and severe obesity.”
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“The seven categories of adverse childhood experiences were strongly interrelated and persons with multiple categories of childhood exposure were likely to have multiple health risk factors later in life.”
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“The relationship between single categories of exposure was significant for all comparisons (P Ͻ .001;chi-square).”
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“The number of categories of adverse childhood exposures showed a graded relationship to the presence of adult diseases including ischemic heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease, skeletal fractures, and liver disease.”
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“Disease conditions including ischemic heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease, skeletal fractures, and liver disease, as well as poor self-rated health also showed a graded relationship to the breadth of childhood exposures.”
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“We also found a significant (P Ͻ .05)dose-response relationship between the number of childhood exposures and the following disease conditions: ischemic heart disease, cancer, chronic bronchitis or emphysema, history of hepatitis or jaundice, skeletal fractures, and poor self-rated health.”
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“a 2-to 4-fold increase in smoking, poor self-rated health, Ն50 sexual intercourse partners, and sexually transmitted disease;”
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“For example, among persons with no childhood exposures, 56% had none of the 10 risk factors whereas only 14% of persons with Ն4 categories of childhood exposure had no risk factors.”
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“The most prevalent of the 7 categories of childhood exposure was substance abuse in the household (25.6%); the least prevalent exposure category was evidence of criminal behavior in the household (3.4%).”
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“By contrast, only 1% of persons with no childhood exposures had four or more risk factors, whereas 7% of persons with Ն4 childhood exposures had four or more risk factors (Table 6).”
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“| Mental illness | | 18.8 |”
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“| Ն65 | 2,610 | 60.0 | 24.5 | 8.9 | 4.2 | 2.4 |”
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“| 19-34 | 807 | 35.4 | 25.4 | 17.2 | 11.0 | 10.9 |”
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“| Psychological | | 11.1 |”
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“| Mother treated violently | | 12.5 |”
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“| 0 | 3,861 | 56 | 29 | 10 | 4 | 1 |”
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“| Ն4 | 545 | 14 | 26 | 28 | 17 | 7 |”
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“Similarly, the odds ratios for skeletal fractures, hepatitis or jaundice, and poor self-rated health were 1.6, 2.3, and 2.2, respectively (Table 8).”
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“| Substance abuse | | 25.6 |”
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“The relationship between single categories of exposure was significant for all comparisons (P Ͻ .001;chi-square).For persons reporting any single category of exposure, the probability of exposure to any additional category ranged from 65%-93% (median: 80%); similarly, the probability of Ն2 additional exposures ranged from 40%-74% (median: 54.5%).”
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“Because adverse childhood experiences are common and they have strong long-term associations with adult health risk behaviors, health status, and diseases, increased attention to primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies is needed.”
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“Respondent (n ϭ 9,508) and nonrespondent (n ϭ 3,986) groups were similar in their percentages of women (53.7% and 51.0%, respectively) and in their mean years of education (14.0 years and 13.6 years, respectively).”
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“After second mailings of the questionnaire to persons who did not respond to the first mailing, the response rate for the survey was 70.5% (9,508/13,494).”
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“Respondents were slightly more likely to answer affirmatively than nonrespondents (6.1% vs. 5.4%, respectively).”
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“Without measuring these household factors as well, long-term influence might be wrongly attributed solely to single types of abuse and the cumulative influence of multiple categories of adverse childhood experiences would not be assessed.”
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“We used questions from published surveys to construct the ACE Study questionnaire.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [39] Straus, 1990 source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [40] Wyatt, 1985, The sexual abuse of Afro-American and White-American women in childhood, Child Abuse Negl source
- Not checked yetcites [41] National Center for Health Statistics. Exposure to alcoholism in the family: United States, 1988. Advance Data, No. 205. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC; September 30, 1991.
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“Respondents were older than nonrespondents (means 56.1 years and 49.3 years) and more likely to be white (83.9% vs. 75.3%)although the actual magnitude of the differences was small.”
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“Studies of the long-term effects of childhood abuse have usually examined single types of abuse, particularly sexual abuse, and few have assessed the impact of more than one type of abuse.5,24 -28”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [5] McCauley, 1997, Clinical characteristics of women with a history of childhood abuse, JAMA source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [24] Briere, 1988, Multivariate correlates of childhood psychological and physical maltreatment among university women, Child Abuse Negl source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [25] Briere, 1990, Differential adult symptomatology associated with three types of child abuse histories, Child Abuse Negl source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [26] Claussen, 1991, Physical and psychological maltreatment, Child Abuse Negl source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [27] Moeller, 1993, The combined effects of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse during childhood, Child Abuse Negl source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [28] Bryant, 1995, Suicidality in college women who were sexually and physically punished by parents, Violence Vict source
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“Respondents and nonrespondents did not differ with regard to their self-rated health, smoking, other substance abuse, or the presence of common medical conditions such as a history of heart attack or stroke, chronic obstructive lung disease, hypertension, or diabetes, or with regard to marital status or current family, marital, or job-related problems (data not shown).”
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“For example, the American Medical Association recommends screening of women for exposure to violence at every entrance to the health system; 66 however, such screening appears to be rare.67”
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- Not checked yetcites [66] 1992, American Medical Association Diagnostic and Treatment Guidelines on Domestic Violence, Arch Fam Med
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“In addition, there may be mediators of the relationship between childhood experiences and adult health status other than the risk factors we examined.”
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“High levels of exposure to adverse childhood experiences would expectedly produce anxiety, anger, and depression in children.”
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“Although articles in the general medical literature are alerting the medical community to the fact that childhood abuse is common, 59 adolescent health care is often inadequate in terms of psychosocial assessment and anticipatory guidance.60”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [60] Rixey, 1994, Family violence and the adolescent, Maryland Med J
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“For example, nicotine is recognized as having beneficial psychoactive effects in terms of regulating affect 49 and persons who are depressed are more likely to smoke.50,51”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [49] Carmody, 1989, Affect regulation, nicotine addiction, and smoking cessation, J Psychoactive Drugs source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [50] Anda, 1990, Depression and the dynamics of smoking. A national perspective, JAMA source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [51] Glassman, 1990, Smoking, smoking cessation, and major depression, JAMA source
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“To the degree that behaviors such as smoking, alcohol, or drug use are found to be effective as coping devices, they would tend to be used chronically.”
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“Many physicians may fear that discussions of sexual violence and other sensitive issues are too personal even for the doctor-patient relationship.65”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [65] Sugg, 1992, Primary care physicians’ response to domestic violence. Opening Pandora’s box, JAMA source
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“because it is strongly predictive of mortality.45”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > 3.4 Any category reported 52.1%
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [45] Idler, 1990, Self-rated health and mortality in the NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study, Am J Pub Health source
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“Second, some persons with health risk behaviors or diseases may have been either more, or less, likely to report adverse childhood experiences.”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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“Moreover, these childhood exposures include emotionally sensitive topics such as family alcoholism 29,30 and sexual abuse.64”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [29] Zeitlen, 1994, Children with alcohol misusing parents, Br Med Bull source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [30] Dore, 1995, Identifying substance abuse in maltreating families, Child Abuse Negl source
- Not checked yetcites [64] Tabachnick, 1997, Perceptions of child sexual abuse as a public health problem. Vermont, September 1995, Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
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“Furthermore, disease conditions could be either over-or under-reported by patients when they complete the medical questionnaire.”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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“The relationship between childhood experiences and adult health status is likely to be overlooked in medical practice because the time delay between exposure during childhood and recognition of health problems in adult medical practice is lengthy.”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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“The data about adverse childhood experiences are based on self-report, retrospective, and can only demonstrate associations between childhood exposures and health risk behaviors, health status, and diseases in adulthood.”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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“Thus, smoking, which is medically and socially viewed as a “problem” may, from the perspective of the user, represent an effective immediate solution that leads to chronic use.”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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“Although articles in the general medical literature are alerting the medical community to the fact that childhood abuse is common, 59 adolescent health care is often inadequate in terms of psychosocial assessment and anticipatory guidance.60”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [59] MacMillan, 1997, Prevalence of child physical and sexual abuse in the community. Results from the Ontario Health Supplement, JAMA source
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“Logistic regression analysis was employed to adjust for the potential confounding effects of age, sex, race, and educational attainment on the relationship between the number of childhood exposures and health problems.”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Statistical Analysis
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Conditions such as drug abuse, spousal violence, and criminal activity in the household may co-occur with specific forms of abuse that involve children.
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“Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) were documented at baseline using the 10-item ACE Study questionnaire to measure childhood trauma, and were grouped as either “0–3” or “4+” due to the high rate of chronic health problems among individuals with scores of 4 or more 37.”
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“Both exposure to IPV and parental separation or divorce are two adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) that are linked in a dose–response relationship to adverse health consequences through the lifespan (Felitti et al., 1998).”
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“There is a strong, graded link between exposure to childhood adversity and risk of negative health, social, and emotional outcomes, including several major categories of chronic disease, lung cancer, various autoimmune diseases, depression and other mental illnesses, and high-risk behaviors (e.g., Felitti et al., 1998).”
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“on average, the life span of individuals with six or more ACEs is 20 years shorter than that of those with zero ACEs (Felitti et al., 1998).”
From Malleability, plasticity, and individuality: How children learn and develop in context1 (2019) · cites this paper as Felitti et al., 1998
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“while adults with ELS/CT experience could be at increased risk of disease with potentially immune origin (36, 53).”
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“In one study of more than 9,500 adults, for example, exposure to multiple forms of early life stress was associated with a 4.6-fold increase in risk of being depressed over the past year (Felitti et al., 1998).”
From From stress to inflammation and major depressive disorder: A social signal transduction theory of depression. (2014) · cites this paper as Felitti et al., 1998
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“Children enter foster care with a sum of adverse childhood experiences.55–57”
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“Adverse childhood experiences, including growing up in a context of maternal substance use (74), predicts an earlier age of onset for alcohol (62, 75) and other drug use (76, 77), and increased odds for attempting suicide (78).”
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“Outcomes associated with early adversity include higher risk of type 2 diabetes, obesity, ischemic heart disease, cancers, depression, addictions, and premature mortality, as well as social outcomes including unemployment and lower educational attainment [1–8].”
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“Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that adverse childhood experiences, namely exposures such as neglect, abuse, caregiver mental illness, and family or community violence, predict poorer long-term outcomes across health and social domains.”
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“Interest in metabolic embedding of ELA stems from epidemiological [1, 69] and clinical [70] studies linking ELA to obesity, dyslipidemia, and type 2 diabetes, raising questions about possible causal pathways.”
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“Adverse psychosocial exposures in early life, namely experiences such as child maltreatment, caregiver stress or depression, and domestic or community violence, have been associated in epidemiological studies with increased lifetime risk of adverse outcomes, including diabetes, heart disease, cancers, and psychiatric illnesses.”
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“In full, ELA-induced changes may mediate epidemiological links to key diseases, including, among others, obesity, dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes, atherosclerosis, asthma, thromboembolic events (myocardial infarction, stroke), cancer onset and progression, as well as addictions, psychopathology, and adverse social outcomes [1–6, 18].”
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“These frequencies are consistent with previous studies documenting elevated rates of childhood adversity among individuals with SUD [3, 5, 9].”
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“Adverse childhood experiences are associated with many negative adult health and health care utilisation outcomes, including cardiovascular illness, depression, suicide attempts, unhealthy substance use, obesity, lung disease, liver disease, cancer and medically unexplained symptoms such as pain or gastrointestinal problems[1–6].”
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“Dose-response relationships between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and multiple risk factors have been documented among AIANs and non-AIANs [51,70].”
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“Rather, the overwhelming majority of studies14 have employed an empirical specification similar to that which has predominated in the literature on childhood adversity, i.e., a sum score of exposures.15–18”
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“Much research associates CT with adverse physical and mental health outcomes (1,2)”
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“Moreover, there is commonly a dose-response relationship between the number of types of adversity associated and the magnitude of the risk for depression.4-11”
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“Similarly, the original ACE study [3] demonstrated that individuals exposed to multiple adverse experiences had a four- to twelve-fold increased risk for alcoholism, drug abuse, depression, and suicide attempts.”
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“Exposure to ELA is associated with a clustering of health risks, with increasing exposure related to an increasing number of HRBs.32”
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“Such an approach facilitates the synthesis of complex evidence for application, and is supported by observed dose–response effects linking cumulative early adversity to later outcomes [1, 3, 5], and by the “allostatic load” paradigm exploring pathogenic effects of cumulative all-cause stress [15].”
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“Dose-response relationship between number of adversities and health and social effects are observed in large epidemiological studies”
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“Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) considerably increase the likelihood of mental illness, health risk behaviors, and chronic physical illnesses.”
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“These findings are consistent with research that has supported the relationship between ACEs and further negative health consequences in the general population (Buckingham & Daniolos, 2013;Cicchetti & Handley, 2019;Felitti et al., 1998;Hughes et al., 2017).”
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“Also, adults who were abused as children have been shown to be at increased risk of disease with potential inflammatory origin (9, 10).”
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“Inflammation may be an important developmental mediator linking adverse experiences in early life to poor adult health.”
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“Given that the effect of stress often appears to be cumulative (2, 9, 19), we derived a cumulative exposure index for each child by counting the number of maltreatment experiences during the first decade of life (31);”
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“Childhood adversity has been repeatedly and robustly linked to physical and mental illness across the lifespan.”
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“The first study using the DAWBA-RAD section reported a very high RAD point-prevalence of 63.0% (96/153) in a sample of looked after youth in a variety of placement forms [29].”
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“Compared to another study on RAD using DAWBA in high-risk foster youths [29], our estimate was quite moderate.”
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“Victims of childhood physical or sexual abuse or parental neglect are at considerably greater risk for affective disorders.1-4”
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“Epidemiological studies provide compelling support for the association between cumulative, adverse childhood experiences and the risk for depression.4,5”
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“In humans, various forms of ELA are associated with illicit drug use later in life [21,22,23].”
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“In addition, there are established links between ELA and obesity [21,24], however, the exact mechanisms are not understood.”
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“The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study from 1998 highlighted 5- to 10-fold increase in the risk of AUD and SUD following exposure to four or more ACEs in the first 18 years of life [112].”
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“Indeed, ELA is associated with a greater likelihood of smoking cigarettes,32,43,44 abusing alcohol and drugs,32,45–47 eating a poor diet,48 and being obese.32,49”
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“ELA has also been associated with physical inactivity, which likely also contributes to the link between ELA and obesity.32”
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“Research has consistently found that care leavers are more likely to have experienced high levels of adverse childhood experience (ACEs) and are at significantly greater risk for negative outcomes (Felitti et al., 1998; Simkiss, 2019).”
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“The documented risks of having care experience are substantial and varied (Berlin et al., 2011; Felitti et al., 1998; Simkiss, 2019).”
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“Early life physical and sexual abuse carry with it a life-long burden of behavioral and pathophysiological problems (Felitti et al., 1998; Heim and Nemeroff, 2001).”
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“There are enormous individual differences in the response to stress, based upon the experience of the individual early in life and in adult life.”
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“Early life physical and sexual abuse imposes a life- long burden of behavioral and pathophysiological problems.41,42”
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“Early-life events related to maternal care in animals, as well as parental care in humans, play a powerful role in later mental and physical health, as demonstrated by the adverse childhood experiences (ACE) studies”
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“ACE have a disproportionately powerful effect on life long trajectories of health and disease, 68 and poverty contributes in its own way as well as creating circumstances for ACE, 114 which, however, occurs across all levels of socioeconomic status (SES).”
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“Boarding schools as a form of cultural genocide and source of historical trauma have had a variety of negative health impacts on Native people, such as high suicide rates, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes that are connected to trauma (Brave Heart et al. 2011;Duran 2019;Felitti et al. 1998).”
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§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Abstract
“We found a graded relationship between the number of categories of childhood exposure and each of the adult health risk behaviors and diseases that were studied (P Ͻ .001).”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Significance of Dose-Response Relationships
“There was no statistically significant dose-response relationship for a history of stroke or diabetes.”
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§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Exclusions from Analysis
“The mean age of the 8,506 persons included in this analysis was 56.1 years”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Exclusions from Analysis
“After these exclusions, 8,056 of the original 9,508 survey respondents (59.7% of the original sample of 13,494) remained and were included in the analysis.”
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§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Abstract
“a 1.4-to 1.6-fold increase in physical inactivity and severe obesity.”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
“| | 4 or more | 523 | 26.6 | 1.3 | ( 1.1-1.6) |”
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§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Relationship between Childhood Exposures and Disease Conditions
“Similarly, the odds ratios for skeletal fractures, hepatitis or jaundice, and poor self-rated health were 1.6, 2.3, and 2.2, respectively (Table 8).”
§ Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study > Discussion
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“The largest contemporary study on the long-term impact of abuse, maltreatment and other childhood trauma is the ACE study (Felitti et al. 1998), which collected data from 17,000 patients who received comprehensive medical evaluations.”
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“ACEs were first described by Felitti and colleagues as childhood abuse and house - hold dysfunctions occurring before the age of 18 (Felitti et al., 1998).”
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“According to the groundbreaking research by Felitti et al. (1998), adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) occur before age 18 and include instances of abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction.”
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“Certain childhood events within an individual ’ s family or social environment can cause physical or psychological harm to the child, thus disrupting their health and development (Felitti et al., 1998).”
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“ACEs are negative, stressful and traumatic events that occur during childhood and adolescence (Felitti et al. 1998).”
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“, 2010) and up to 69% in the general population report polyvictimization or cumulative traumatic experiences (Felitti et al., 1998; Finkelhor et al., 2009, 2015; Ford et al., 2010).”
BackgroundMaternal adverse childhood experiences and postpartum depressive symptoms in young, low-income women
Shin, S. H., Jiskrova, G. K., Kimbrough, T. N., Tabb, K. M., Lee, E. O., & Ayers, C. E. (2020) · Psychiatry Research · doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113679 · Cited by 16
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“, a household member with substance use problems, a household member with mental illness, parental separation or divorce, and incarceration of a household member).(14,26) Similar to physical punishment, these childhood adversities have consistently been associated with poor long-term mental and physical health outcome…”
BackgroundSocial Determinants of Health and ADHD Symptoms in Preschool-Age Children
Spencer, A. E., Oblath, R., Sheldrick, R. C., Ng, L. C., Silverstein, M., & Garg, A. (2021) · Journal of Attention Disorders · doi:10.1177/1087054721996458 · Cited by 13
“We included adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) as a cumulative risk index (Brown et al., 2017; Felitti et al., 1998) (range 0–8), with some hesitation since these do not represent—but are likely to covary with— socioeconomic disadvantage (Chen et al., 2019).”
BackgroundSchauss, E., Zettler, H. R., Patel, M. B., Hawes, K., Dixon, P., Bartelli, D., Ellmo, F. I., Naik, S., Suchomelly, F., Cogdal, P., et al. (2021) · Journal of Family Trauma Child Custody & Child Development · doi:10.1080/26904586.2021.1918037 · Cited by 18
Schlechter, P., Fritz, J., Cassels, M., Neufeld, S., & Wilkinson, P. O. (2021) · European Journal of Psychotraumatology · doi:10.1080/20008198.2021.1981573 · Cited by 14
“Further, one question pertaining to parental mental illness was taken from the Adverse Childhood Experience study (item 8 in Table 1, Felitti et al., 1998), and two questions were added from the List of Threatening Experiences (Brugha, Bebbington, Tennanp, & Hurry, 1985): witnessing family members’…”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialDoi, S. K., Isumi, A., & Fujiwara, T. (2021) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph181910377 · Cited by 12
Fehrenbach, T., Sax, R. M., Hosoda-Urban, T., Simon-Roper, L., Novacek, J., Aaby, D., & Hodgdon, H. (2021) · Journal of Child and Family Studies · doi:10.1007/s10826-021-02096-x · Cited by 12
Trauma-Informed Treatment Practices in Criminal Justice Settings
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“In the mid-1990s, research in the US revealed the staggering frequency of developmental traumas called adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013a; Felitti et al., 1998).”
BackgroundPernell, B. M., Nagalapuram, V., Lebensburger, J. D., Lin, C. P., Baskin, M. L., & Pachter, L. M. (2021) · Pediatric Blood & Cancer · doi:10.1002/pbc.29494 · Cited by 12
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“Five childhood disadvantage domains were created based on 28 self-reported, retrospective indicators occurring before age 18, prior conceptual and empirical literature, and factor analysis (Felitti et al., 1998; Morton & Ferraro, 2020).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialPerinatal and early childhood biomarkers of psychosocial stress and adverse experiences
Barrero‐Castillero, A., Pierce, L. J., Urbina-Johanson, S., Pirazzoli, L., Burris, H. H., & Nelson, C. A. (2022) · Pediatric Research · doi:10.1038/s41390-022-01933-z · Cited by 12
Resilience in late adolescence/young adulthood: Rising to the occasion?
Zlotnick, C., Manor‐Lavon, I., & Srulovici, E. (2022) · Military Psychology · doi:10.1080/08995605.2021.2017190 · Cited by 13
“…experienced: emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional neglect, physical neglect, parental divorce/separation, witnessed domestic violence, family member had an alcohol/drug addiction, family member had a mental illness, and family member was imprisoned (Felitti et al., 1998).”
BackgroundChopko, B. A., Adams, R. E., Davis, J., Dunham, S. M., & Palmieri, P. A. (2022) · Journal of Traumatic Stress · doi:10.1002/jts.22803 · Cited by 12
Heselton, G. A., Rempel, G. R., & Nicholas, D. B. (2022) · International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being · doi:10.1080/17482631.2022.2051237 · Cited by 12
Guerithault, N., McClure, S. M., Ojinnaka, C. O., Braden, B. B., & Bruening, M. M. (2022) · Nutrients · doi:10.3390/nu14102064 · Cited by 13
“The CDC ACEs Questionnaire [30] was administered to all participants at the time of the MRI.”
Methodde Andrade, C. R., Avanci, J. Q., & de Oliveira, R. D. V. C. (2022) · Cadernos de Saúde Pública · doi:10.1590/0102-311xpt269921 · Cited by 21
Jones, A., Buntman, F. L., Ishizawa, H., & Lese, K. (2022) · American Journal of Criminal Justice · doi:10.1007/s12103-022-09689-2 · Cited by 17
“…in childhood can negatively impact physical and mental health throughout the life course, including through exposure to the criminal justice system (Craig et al., 2020; Danese et al., 2009; Felitti et al., 1998; Nurius et al., 2015; Turner et al., 2006), and can enhance the risk of recidivism.”
Butler, A. M., Brown, S. D., Carreon, S. A., Smalls, B. L., & Terry, A. (2022) · Diabetes Spectrum · doi:10.2337/dsi22-0006 · Cited by 13
Childhood maltreatment, depression and their link to adult economic burdens
Petersen, J., Schulz, A.-C., Brähler, E., Sachser, C., Fegert, J. M., & Beutel, M. E. (2022) · Frontiers in Psychiatry · doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2022.908422 · Cited by 12
“Adverse childhood experiences were surveyed using the German version of the ACE Questionnaire which consists of 10 items that inquire about child maltreatment and problems at home in childhood using yes/no answer categories (4, 32).”
MethodSchool-Based Speech-Language Pathologists' Attitudes and Knowledge About Trauma-Informed Care
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“The RFQ [20] was administered in two investigations [32,35]; it is a 13-item questionnaire which includes “Abuse”, “Neglect” and “Chaotic home environment” subscales concerning experiences having occurred between 5 and 15 years.”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialChild Care Subsidies: Opportunities for Prevention of Child Maltreatment
Rochford, H. I., Zeiger, K. D., & Peek-Asa, C. L. (2022) · Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal · doi:10.1007/s10560-022-00887-9 · Cited by 12
“…use behaviors, violent/criminal behaviors, family outcomes, and intergenerational outcomes (Berger & Waldfogel, 2011; Perez & Widom, 1994; Corso et al., 2008; Felitti et al., 1998; Covington, 2013; Delima & Vimpani, 2011; Li et al., 2016; Nemeroff, 2016; Teicher & Samson, 2016; Kim et al., 2017).”
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“ACEs has shown good predictive validity for increased mental and physical health risks and disease in adulthood (e.g.,Felitti et al., 1998; Petruccelli et al., 2019).”
BackgroundMethodLiving with suicidal thoughts: A scoping review
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“The complexity of this concept has made it difficult to generate a widely accepted definition; however, the proposal of the seminal CDC-Kaiser Permanente Study [2] has been the most widely used in multiple lines of research.”
BackgroundOverbeck, G., Kragstrup, J., Gørtz, M., Rasmussen, I. S., Graungaard, A. H., Siersma, V., de Voss, S. S., Ertmann, R. K., Shahrzad, S., Appel, C. L., et al. (2023) · Trials · doi:10.1186/s13063-022-07045-7 · Cited by 12
“The association of adverse childhood experiences with long-term ill health is incon-trovertible [17, 18].”
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“12% of forensic investigators had experienced four or more adverse childhood experiences (Felitti et al., 1998).”
BackgroundDugan, S. A., Karavolos, K., Zhang, Y., Avery, E., Janssen, İ., Farhi, M., Harlow, S. D., & Kravitz, H. M. (2023) · Journal of Women s Health · doi:10.1089/jwh.2022.0211 · Cited by 18
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“In the United States, more than half of 13,000 adults surveyed reported at least one adverse childhood experience (ACE) and one quarter of the respondents reported more than two (Felitti et al., 1998).”
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“The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study found that PTEs during childhood were strongly related to multiple risk factors for several of the leading causes of death in adults [16, 17].”
BackgroundSocial Determinants of Health: Implications for Voice Disorders and Their Treatment.
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The impact of trauma-awareness session on police officers’ trauma-informed attitudes in Scotland
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“Despite this, a growing body of research demonstrates considerable and complex links between ACEs and clinical/criminal outcomes across the life-span (Allen & Donkin, 2015; Chapman et al., 2004; Dube et al., 2003; Felitti et al., 1998).”
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“Adverse Childhood Experiences is a summative index of ACEs, which explores exposure to adverse and/or traumatic experiences as well as household dysfunction during childhood (Felitti et al., 1998).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialThe Consequences of Child Abuse
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“These ailments result from increased health risk behaviors that result from exposure to early adverse experiences [2].”
BackgroundInfluentialMultiple types of distress are prospectively associated with increased risk of ovarian cancer
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“Our findings add to the growing body of literature documenting the sustained impact of the early life environment on health throughout the life course [2, 38].”
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“Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) include various forms of abuse, neglect, or household instability experienced before age 18, and their associated health consequences have been studied since 1998 when the landmark ACE study was conducted (Felitti et al., 1998).”
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“1 3 as one of seven risk factors with strong and cumulative impacts on multiple health outcomes through adulthood (Felitti et al., 1998).”
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Emotion dysregulation – A bridge between ACE and aggressive antisocial behavior
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Metadata
- Authors
- Felitti, V. J., Anda, R. F., Nordenberg, D., Williamson, D. F., Spitz, A. M., Edwards, V., Koss, M. P., & Marks, J. S.
- Affiliations
- Kaiser Permanente (US)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- Emory University (US)
- University of Arizona (US)
- Corresponding author
- Felitti, Vincent J
- Venue
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1998-05
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 245-258
- ISSN
- 0749-3797 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2116839388
- Cited by
- 18,943
- References
- 97
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1615 · 2025: 1790 · 2024: 1720 · 2023: 1711 · 2022: 1648 · 2021: 1720 · 2020: 1565 · 2019: 1232 · 2018: 963 · 2017: 825 · 2016: 666 · 2015: 573 · 2014: 446 · 2013: 413 · 2012: 340
- FWCI
- 57.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (TS-44-10/12)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Keywords
- adverse childhood experiences, childhood abuse, household dysfunction, childhood emotional abuse, child physical abuse, child sexual abuse, alcoholism, drug abuse, depression, suicide attempts, smoking, sexually transmitted infections, obesity, physical inactivity, ischemic heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease, liver disease, cumulative exposure, leading causes of death
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, California, Cause of Death, Child, Child Abuse, Family, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Surveys and Questionnaires, Risk Factors, Social Problems, Violence, Health Behavior, Logistic Models, Child of Impaired Parents, Domestic Violence
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