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Adult Health Problems Linked to Traumatic Childhood Experiences

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, May 25th, 1998

Many of the most common causes of death and disability in the U.S. may be linked to adverse emotional experiences in childhood.

The data were published in the May 14, 1998, issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study, conducted by the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in San Diego, California; the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia; and the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona, suggested that childhood abuse and household dysfunction lead to the development decades later of the chronic diseases that are the...

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