An international team of scientists has found that low socioeconomic status – poverty and lack of education – is directly linked to accelerated biological aging, and this pattern is already evident in childhood. The study was published in the journal Nature Human Behavior.
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute and Columbia University analyzed data from 140 scientific papers covering nearly 66,000 people from 23 countries aged 0 to 86 years. Epigenetic clocks, models that analyze molecular changes in DNA, have been used to estimate the rate of aging. Children from poor families biologically age faster than their wealthy counterparts, and adults who grew up in poverty show a higher rate of aging.
“The important thing is that the biological clock is influenced not only by individual choice, but also by living conditions,” he says. message.
This opens opportunities to develop social rather than medical interventions.
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