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March 25, 2010
Childhood Adversities May Have Additive Associations With Onset Of Psychiatric Disorders.
MedWire (3/4, Levy) reports that, according to a study published in the February issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, "childhood adversities (CAs) have significant subadditive associations with the onset of psychiatric disorders throughout the life course."
After analyzing "CAs and lifetime Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV disorders assessed in the US National Comorbidity Survey Replication involving 9,282 adults," Harvard researchers "found that 44.6% of all childhood-onset psychiatric disorders and 25.9% to 32.0% of later-onset disorders were attributed to CAs."
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- Childhood adversities have additive effect on psychiatric disorder onset," Joel Levy, MedWire News, March 4, 2010.
Posted by admin at March 25, 2010 09:58 PM