Young people with health problems left uncared for in adolescence face higher risks of leading unhealthy lives as adults, a new study finds.
A study of 14,800 people found that the odds of adverse adult health conditions were 13 percent to 52 percent higher among those who reported unmet health needs as adolescents than for those whose who did not have unmet needs as teens but who were otherwise comparable. The study was conducted first in 1994-1995 when many subjects were in their mid-teens and again in 2008 when many were in their late 20s.
[For more of this story, written by Lisa Gillespie, go to http://khn.org/news/bad-health...t-get-help-as-teens/]
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