Difficult childhood may increase disease risk in adulthood

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 01:22 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 new report.

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