A group of American scientists from the University of Georgia found that one of the main causes of premature aging is lack of money.
As a result of their study revealed that financial problems threaten early death, as poor people are constantly experiencing a shortage of funds, grow old before those who have such problems has not.
The experts conducted the testing, which involved 100 American women of middle age, and determined their biological age at the epigenetic clock, which show the pace of biological aging relative to chronological age.
The results showed that the rate of biological aging ladies are significantly different from their chronological age and are directly dependent on the income of the respondents.
So, 68% of women whose income was less than $3.9 thousand a year, was marked by the accelerated pace of aging. And the majority (70%) of those whose income exceeded $15 million annually, the rate of aging, on the contrary, was slowed down.
Scientists believe that the results of the study due to the constant stress that people experience financial problems. The anxiety caused by the lack of money, has a devastating impact on health and accelerate aging, say experts in an article published in the journal Sciencealert.
In addition, financial instability does not allow to carefully monitor the condition: the poor not only have quality medical care, but had to settle for cheap poor quality and harmful food.
Previously, the researchers found that the experience of a person because of a lack of money can cause physical pain, with this effect more susceptible to the male part of the population.
At the same time, German scientists have found that the income of Europeans doesn’t affect their life satisfaction. The people who received high wages, were not happier than those who received small (by European standards).
Now the researchers intend to continue work on the study of communication of financial problems and aging to further investigate the relationship of income with health status and life expectancy of the person.
