To address this potential bias, we repeated the analyses in Table 3, focusing on adult sexual assault versus accidents, disaster and unexpected death of someone close occurring in adulthood. Given the large sample size of NESARC, there were 197 index cases with sexual assault occurring at or above the age of 18 years. (Note that the PTSD risk associated with sexual assault in adulthood was approximately the same as in childhood, 43.2% and 40.1%, respectively.)
