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Difficult childhood may increase disease risk in adulthood

December 8, 2009 by

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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