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Emotional or sexual abuse in childhood may increase risk for multiple sclerosis in women, and multiple kinds of abuse is tied to further risk, the first prospective study of its kind suggests.

Exposure to two or all three abuse categories associated with further increased risk for multiple sclerosis.

Childhood sexual and emotional abuse are associated with an increased risk for developing multiple sclerosis (MS) in women.

The impact of childhood trauma can last a lifetime, and leave people feeling like shadows of their former selves. Victims of abuse also face unimaginable pain and very real health consequences, none of which is their fault.