Thread: The ACE quiz
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Old Mar 04, 2015, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by newtus View Post
yea i was gonna say im surprised they didnt talk about mental illness but they chose to research cancer and diabetes?
There's a table at the article with some of the problems associated with a higher ACE score. Depression is listed. And suicide. Drug and alcohol use. Those are seen as mental health problems. The original story that I heard on the radio was very much focused on physical health problems, though.
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