Is Life Expectancy Reduced by a Traumatic Childhood?
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 17:07
in Health & Medicine
A difficult childhood reduces life expectancy by 20 years among adults who experienced six or more particular types of abuse or household dysfunction as kids, while those who suffered fewer types of trauma lost fewer years of life, a large-scale epidemiological study finds. [More]
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