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Health & WellnessMay 28, 2026

Early-Life Adversity Screening Poorly Predicted Adult Mental Health Risk

TL;DR: A 2026 population-based study in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry found that early-life adversity scores were linked to higher group-level mental health risk but performed poorly for identifying which Canadian adults had anxiety, mood disorders, subst…

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Brain AgingMay 18, 2026

Childhood and Adult Adversity Linked to Biological Aging Markers

TL;DR: A 2026 BMC Medicine study of UK Biobank adults linked adversity in both childhood and adulthood to higher frailty, older metabolomic age profiles, lower grip strength, and some telomere differences, with the clearest associations in people reporting mul…

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Early-Life Adversity Screening Poorly Predicted Adult Mental Health Risk

Childhood and Adult Adversity Linked to Biological Aging Markers

The findings. The context. The caveats.