Adverse childhood events and risk of diabetes onset in the 1979 National longitudinal survey of youth cohort

• Main Authors: E. Anne Lown (Author), Camillia K. Lui (Author), Kate Karriker-Jaffe (Author), Nina Mulia (Author), Edwina Williams (Author), Yu Ye (Author), Libo Li (Author), Thomas K. Greenfield (Author), William C. Kerr (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Type 2 diabetes is a major public health problem with considerable personal and societal costs. Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) are associated with a number of serious and chronic health problems in adulthood, but these experiences have not been adequately studied in relation...