Risk of type-1 diabetes 'can be tripled by childhood stress'

10 Apr 2015


Children who experience stressful events such as a death or illness in the family, divorce or separation, could be three times more likely to develop type-1 diabetes, according to a Swedish study in Diabetologia.

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