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 …

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

A growing body of research has made it increasingly apparent that adverse childhood
experiences (ACEs) are a critical public health issue. ACEs are potentially traumatic …

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

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 …

Legislators, caregivers, and the media increasingly recognize that childhood adversity
poses risks to individual health and well-being. The original Adverse Childhood …

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) lead to excess morbidity and mortality. However,
this evidence has not resulted in large-scale efforts to prevent ACEs. We conducted a …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Current assessments of adverse childhood experiences
(ACEs) may not adequately encompass the breadth of adversity to which low-income urban …

Substantial evidence has accumulated supporting a causal link between childhood
adversity and risk for poor health years and even decades later. One interpretation of this …

Methods Using data from 5,378 people who responded to the 2002 Texas Behavioral Risk
Factor Surveillance System survey (which included questions about childhood adversity) …