Battered Women's Ills Go Beyond Bruises
Victims of abuse may get headaches, chest pain, infections and other health woes, study finds.
Women abused by their romantic partners are more likely to suffer from a long list of medical maladies than other women, a new study shows.
The diseases, many of which aren't traditionally connected with violence, include abdominal pain, chest pain, headaches, acid reflux, urinary tract infections and menstrual disorders.
"Roughly half of the diagnoses we examined were more common in abused women than in other women," study author Amy Bonomi, an associate professor of human development and family science at Ohio State University, in a school news release.
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