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Long-term medical consequences of incest rape and molestation.
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Questions about childhood sexual abuse must become part of the practitioner's review of systems in these difficult cases, if not routinely, it is clear that these remote events can underlie difficult chronic medical problems.Abstract:
One hundred thirty-one patients who gave a history of childhood sexual abuse were seen in a general medical practice decades after the event and were compared with a control group. The subject patients were found to be distinct for chronic depression, morbid obesity, marital instability, high utilization of medical care, and certain psychosomatic symptoms, particularly chronic gastrointestinal distress and recurrent headaches. It is clear that these remote events can underlie difficult chronic medical problems. Questions about childhood sexual abuse must become part of the practitioner's review of systems in these difficult cases, if not routinely.read more
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Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study
Vincent J. Felitti,Robert F. Anda,Dale F. Nordenberg,David F. Williamson,Alison M. Spitz,Valerie J. Edwards,Mary P. Koss,James S. Marks +7 more
TL;DR: For example, this article found a strong relationship between the breadth of exposure to abuse or household dysfunction during childhood and multiple risk factors for several of the leading causes of death in adults.
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Carrying the Pain of Abuse: Gender-Specific Findings on the Relationship between Childhood Physical Abuse and Obesity in Adulthood
TL;DR: This study provides one of the first population-based, gender-specific analyses of the association between childhood physical abuse and obesity controlling for a wide range of factors.
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Clinical Characteristics of Women With a History of Childhood Abuse: Unhealed Wounds
Jeanne McCauley,David E. Kern,Ken Kolodner,Laurie Dill,Arthur F. Schroeder,Hallie K. DeChant,Janice Ryden,Leonard R. Derogatis,Eric B Bass +8 more
TL;DR: Children abused only as children did not differ from women who reported current, but not childhood, abuse in number of physical symptoms, emotional distress, substance abuse, or suicide attempts, and patients who reported both childhood and adult abuse had higher levels of psychological problems and physical symptoms.
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Adverse Childhood Experiences, Alcoholic Parents, and Later Risk of Alcoholism and Depression
Robert F. Anda,Charles L. Whitfield,Vincent J. Felitti,Daniel P. Chapman,Valerie J. Edwards,Shanta R. Dube,David F. Williamson +6 more
TL;DR: Depression among adult children of alcoholics appears to be largely, if not solely, due to the greater likelihood of having had adverse childhood experiences in a home with alcohol-abusing parents.
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Sexual Abuse and Lifetime Diagnosis of Psychiatric Disorders: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Laura P. Chen,M. Hassan Murad,Molly L Paras,Kristina M. Colbenson,Amelia Sattler,Erin N. Goranson,Mohamed B. Elamin,Richard J. Seime,Gen Shinozaki,Larry J. Prokop,Ali Zirakzadeh +10 more
TL;DR: A history of sexual abuse is associated with an increased risk of a lifetime diagnosis of multiple psychiatric disorders and associations between sexual abuse and depression, eating disorders, and posttraumatic stress disorder were strengthened by a history of rape.