Understanding Connection Between Poverty, Childhood Trauma and Heart Disease [medicalexpress.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 8/28/194:00 AM

By Medical Express, August 27, 2019

Traumatic childhood experiences among the poor and uninsured are associated with higher cardiovascular risk, according to new research.

Experts have long known difficult childhoods are linked with a wide range of health risks later in life, including obesity, substance abuse and cardiovascular disease.

They're also alarmingly common: More than half of the U.S. population say they experienced at least one adverse experience as a child or adolescent.

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