MedPage Today (10/4, Wu) reports on research finding that “childhood adversity – encompassing…abuse, neglect, and violence, among other hazards – was associated with over 430,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2019.” Based on “seven meta-analyses,” the researchers “found that deaths with the strongest ties to childhood adversity were from suicide and sexually transmitted infections.” It was also “implicated in various other unhealthy behaviors and disease markers, such as alcohol use, illicit drug use, and smoking.” The analyses “included 20,654,832 participants…from the last 10 years that measured the impact of childhood adversity on at least one cause of death or other health outcome.” The findings were published in JAMA Pediatrics.
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