ArticleInnovation in aging2019
Association Between Adverse Childhood Events and Multimorbidity in a Racial and Ethnic Diverse Sample of Middle-Aged and Older Adults.
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- The impact of adverse childhood experiences on multimorbidity: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Life Course Adversity Related to Geriatric Syndromes: A Narrative Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- The impact of adverse childhood experiences on the development of multimorbidity in older adults in Nigeria.PloS one · 2026Article
- Adverse Childhood Experiences, Genetic Susceptibility, and the Risk of Osteoporosis: A Cohort Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Clusters and associations of adverse neonatal events with adult risk of multimorbidity: A secondary analysis of birth cohort data.PloS one · 2025Article
- Adverse childhood experiences and adult disease: Examining mediating pathways in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos Sociocultural Ancillary Study.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2024Article
- Childhood health and educational disadvantage are associated with adult multimorbidity in the global south: findings from a cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative surveys in India and Brazil.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2023Article
- Adverse childhood experiences and the development of multimorbidity across adulthood-a national 70-year cohort study.Age and ageing · 2023Article
- Less than ideal cardiovascular health among adults is associated with experiencing adverse childhood events: BRFSS 2019.Preventive medicine · 2023Article
- Exploring the national prevalence of mental health risk, multimorbidity and the associations thereof: a repeated cross-sectional panel study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- The Contribution of Chronic Conditions to Hospitalization, Skilled Nursing Facility Admission, and Death: Variation by Race.American journal of epidemiology · 2022Article
- An in-depth look at latent classes of DSM-5 psychiatric comorbidity among individuals with PTSD: Clinical indicators and treatment utilization.Journal of clinical psychology · 2022Article
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Health Indicators in a Young Adult, College Student Sample: Differences by Gender.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesAdverse childhood events (ACEs) have been associated with increased health risks later in life. However, it is unclear whether ACEs may be associated with multimorbidity among diverse racial/ethnic middle-aged and older adults. We evaluated whether there were racial and ethnic differences in the association between ACEs and the number of somatic and psychiatric multimorbidity in a sample of U.S. middle-aged and older adults. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
methodsData from the 2012-2013 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (
resultsThe prevalence of reporting more than two somatic conditions and psychiatric disorders was 48.8% and 11.4% for those with a history of ACEs, and 41.1% and 3.3% for those without a history of ACEs. Adjusting for sociodemographic and other health risk factors, ACEs was significantly associated with greater numbers of somatic multimorbidity among racial and ethnic middle-aged adults but this was not the case for older adults. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: Our findings suggest that middle-aged adults with a history of ACEs are more likely to suffer from somatic and psychiatric multimorbidity, highlighting the importance of screening for ACEs in promoting healthy aging.
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