Thank You for posting this query, Susan Hess.
I've noticed something of late, as I switched primary care physicians recently. The last one wouldn't acknowledge the [validity of the] ACE study.
For the past six months, I've been experiencing "toxic stress" at the elderly public housing I've resided in for about 7 1/2 years. I'd been 'homeless' just prior to that, for about 7 months. The toxic stress, may be exacerbating remnants of [what remains of] my PTSD (or unaddressed ACEs- I had an ACE score of 6, and a Resilience score of 10, when I recently self-administered the CDC/Kaiser ACE questions [not the World Health Org. ACE International Questionaire-which may have more ACE categories]).
Although I did EMDR-in 1994, the first time, which stopped flashbacks I'd endured for 28 years, it was before I'd learned of the ACE Study. I'd also attended a "Grand Rounds" continuing education session at [then Dartmouth, now] Geisel Medical School by an Epidemiologist, in 2000, who noted: "52% of Detroit Metropolitan Area Schoolchildren met the [then] DSM-IV criteria for PTSD". I didn't go to school in Detroit, but I'd witnessed similar circumstances as a young adult, in the Southeast Bronx, during visits there in the early 1970's.
I found the ACEsConnection blog post today: Alice Miller's "For Your Own Good: Hidden cruelty..." to be significant--in view of the current level of televised Presidential debates, and other recent presidential election media coverage --which may exacerbate any 'untreated' ACEs in a sizable portion of our elderly population. On page 2 of that blog, "To make her case, Miller notes the example of Hitler's childhood to show the genesis of his insatiable hatred....". For those of us of German descent (my maternal grandparents were both of German origin), there may be 'trans-generational' [childhood] trauma...