Health: Are the dice rolled before ten years of age?

(Universit é de Gen è ve) Researchers at UNIGE found that socio-economically disadvantaged individuals in childhood are a greater risk of low muscle strength at an older age. Moreover, this risk is not offset by an improvement in their socio-economic status as adults. This means that inequalities in childhood are biologically embodied to literally 'get into the skin'. Why? They suggest that a physiological deregulation caused by stress in childhood might change the body's ability to maintain good health along time.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news