Childhood Trauma And Its Lifelong Health Effects More Prevalent Among Minorities
“‘This is the first study of this kind that allows us to talk about adverse childhood experience as a public health problem in the same way we talk about obesity or hypertension or any other highly prevalent population risk factor,’ says Adam Schickedanz, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, who was not involved in the research. ‘Up until now, we haven’t really had a study that takes a national look.’”