A Honduran child and her mother, fleeing poverty and violence in their country, wait at the U.S.-Mexico border, where they have been denied entry. Brownsville, Texas, on June 25, 2018. Spencer Platt / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP
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Cyril TARQUINIO, Camille Louise TARQUINIO

What if childhood suffering explained the chronic diseases of adults?

This is the hypothesis put forward in the early 1990s by Vincent Felitti, head of the preventive medicine department at the Kaiser Permanente clinic in San Diego, California.

Since then, many studies tend to confirm it...