10 Apr, 2015
Risk of diabetes type 1 ‘can be tripled by childhood stress’
The Guardian | Haroon Siddique and agency | 9 April 2015
Stress from serious events in first 14 years of life may be risk factor and one trigger for disease, finds Swedish study of 10,000 families
The Swedish study analysed more than 10,000 families with children aged between two and 14, who did not already have the condition. The aim was to pinpoint any family conflicts, unemployment problems, alteration of family structure, or intervention from social services. Subsequently, 58 children were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
