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  • Study links insulin resistance, advanced cell aging with childhood poverty

    Jul 25, 2022 10:45 am by Sharita ForrestInsights
    Allen W. Barton, a professor of human development and family studies. Photo by Fred Zwicky

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    • Allen W. Barton, a professor of human development and family studies. Photo by Fred Zwicky

    Black adolescents who lived in poverty as children and were pessimistic about their future had accelerated immune cell aging and greater levels of insulin resistance in their mid- to late twenties, according to a new U of I study.