Health Day – Robert Preidt and Ernie Mundell
As if suffering from a mental illness as a child isn’t tough enough, new research suggests it could predict higher odds for physical ills in later life. There was one silver lining to the findings, however. Knowing that childhood mental illness is a factor, “you can identify the people at risk for physical illnesses much earlier in life,” explained study lead researcher Jasmin Wertz, a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University in Durham, N.C.