Disease and disorder outcomes associated with multiple adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress (not exhaustive)
| Behaviour with significant health consequences | Mental health | Social inclusion difficulties | Chronic disease and organ damage |
| Excessive food consumption leading to high body mass index and obesity | Mental ill health and psychiatric diagnoses Anxiety | Harms to life prospects including: education, employment, poverty and healthy relationships | Cancer Heart disease |
| Smoking | Depression | Respiratory disease | |
| Heavy or problematic alcohol use | Suicidality | Liver or digestive disease | |
| Problematic drug use | Self-directed and interpersonal violence | Diabetes mellitus | |
| Sexual risk taking and teenage pregnancy | Poor life satisfaction |
Adapted from Hughes et al.41