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The family of the difficulties and tensions of human exposure during childhood to speed up the pace of aging in adulthood, according to a recent study stressed the permanent biological impact of trauma that occurs in the early years of age.
The researchers measured the length of telomeres which pieces of DNA protects the chromosomes associated contraction that occurs with age aging cells and diseases resulting therefrom.
In the context of this research, published in the Annals of the American Academy of Sciences (Banas), scientists compare telomeres of the salivary glands for 4598 participants have crossed the age of fifty, men and women. Participants responded to questions about the stress they had faced during their lives, and that between 1992 and 2008.
These include the difficulties that occurred when the participants were under the age of ten, in a tight financial and family having to change the housing and the loss of a parent to his job and parental addiction to alcohol or a drug.
The form also included questions about whether the participant in the study was beaten in his childhood or subjected to sexual torture or had problems with the police.
He noted the team of researchers, led by Eli Putrman from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada's shrinking telomeres after the age of fifty is increased by 11% with each bitter experience is lived as a child.
And promote the study, according to the curators, the results that have been reached in the previous studies reported that childhood problems may affect the aging of cells in adulthood.
It is likely, according to researchers, to have these problems greater impact on the health of the psychological pressure that occur in adulthood factors, such as the loss of a child or a husband or a wife and being injured during the war and the face of a natural disaster.
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