Difficult childhood may increase disease risk in adulthood
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 06:35
in Health & Medicine
Individuals who experience psychological or social adversity in childhood may have lasting emotional, immune and metabolic abnormalities that help explain why they develop more age-related diseases in adulthood, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...