Adverse childhood experiences and premature all-cause mortality

Adverse childhood experiences and hallucinations.

OBJECTIVE Little information is available about the contribution of multiple adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) to the likelihood of reporting hallucinations. We used data from the ACE study to assess this relationship. METHODS We conducted a survey about childhood abuse and household dysfunction while growing up, with questions about health behaviors and outcomes in adulthood, which was co...

Adverse childhood experiences and trauma.

Trauma is any event, usually a non-ordinary one, that harms the body, self, or spirit. It covers a broad range of hurtful experiences, including traumas that involve the physical, sexual, mental, or emotional realms of our being.1,2 In their article in this issue, Felitti et al.3 report various common and less common kinds of trauma that occur regularly in this and other countries today. They c...

A life course approach to investigating socioeconomic differences in premature cardiovascular mortality and all-cause mortality

Background: There has been growing interest for a temporal perspective in the understanding of socioeconomic differences in the development of disease. Different etiological models for the impact of the social environment on adult disease have been presented and these models have been grouped into four broad conceptual models: the latent effects, pathway, social mobility, and cumulative life co...

Depression, cardiac mortality and all-cause mortality

Depression is an illness that kills. The links between depression and medical illness are well established and bi-directional, but evidence is mounting that depression increases mortality as well as morbidity in adults, particularly older adults. We examine the evidence that the increase in mortality in depression applies to all-cause mortality as well as cardiac mortality, and describe plausib...

Adverse childhood experiences, obesity, and liver disease.