Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.ADULTS who were maltreated as children have a much greater chance of having multiple health problems.Research by Glasgow University, using UK Biobank data from 157,000 people, examined the link between the four forms of childhood maltreatment - physical, sexual, emotional and neglect -and the presence of multimorbidity, later in adult life.The researchers found that those who had experienced all four types of maltreatment were five times as likely to have four or more long-term health conditions, than people who reported experiencing no childhood maltreatment.When compared with no experience of childhood maltreatment, participants experiencing.