Background The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is a major research study
that compares current adult health status to childhood experiences decades earlier. With the …

The article by Flaherty and colleagues' in this issue studies the determinants of health in 805
high-risk children by evaluating them at age 6 and age 12, prospectively matching adverse …

A recent study of 9508 residents of San Diego, California, published in the American Journal
of Preventive Medicine, documents an assessment of the long-term relationship of childhood …

Setting ACEs research in the broader context of the social determinants of health and the
biology of social adversity helps address the serious limitations that result from extrapolating …

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) detrimentally affect health outcomes in childhood,
adolescence, and adulthood. Over the past 2 decades, the recognition of ACEs by scientists …

Many people can identify a person in their lives who struggles with a chronic illness like
heart disease, diabetes, or hypertension. Most people also know someone who struggles …

This introduction to the themed issue overviews the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)
Study and discusses prevention and intervention with ACE and their consequences in …

BACKGROUND: Strong, graded relationships between exposure to childhood traumatic
stressors and numerous negative health behaviors and outcomes, healthcare utilization …

Medical research on “adverse childhood experiences”(ACEs) reveals a compelling
relationship between the extent of childhood adversity, adult health risk behaviors, and …

This fact sheet presents the latest data on the prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences
(ACEs) among children in the United States. 1 ACEs include a range of experiences (Table …