Badley EM, et al. - Through an analysis of the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey–Mental Health that involved 21,889 respondents aged ≥ 18 years, researchers established whether there was a correlation between the frequency and severity of various types of childhood maltreatment and adulthood arthritis. Arthritis was listed by a total of 17.5% of respondents. For those who had faced severe and/or common childhood maltreatment, a greater prevalence of arthritis was noted. These associations continued following controlling for sociodemographic variables. Subsequent to controlling for all covariates, arthritis prevailed to be independently correlated with severe and/or persistent childhood physical abuse and frequent childhood exposure to intimate partner violence. Hence, the greater the frequency and severity of childhood maltreatment, the more the magnitude of the relationship with arthritis. This might highlight the role of the enduring immune and metabolic anomalies and chronic inflammation related to childhood maltreatment in the etiopathogenesis of OA or be an indicator of the role of joint injury in causing OA.