Children from poor families will grow old and die

Poverty causes accelerated the aging of genes a child, it turned out the American researchers. As a result, the duration of adulthood these children may significantly decrease, and they themselves are more likely to get sick and die prematurely.

children from poor families

Scientists from the University of Michigan examined the DNA of a small group of 9-year-old African-American boys who We are experiencing chronic stress due to living in poor families . It turned out that telomeres   (end portions of chromosomes) of these children were shorter than their Peer, who lived in more affluent circumstances. In fact, children from poor families   We had a more "old" genes.

In length telomere   judged not only biological age, but also its sustainability in the whole a number of diseases. The length of the telomeres reduces with each copy of DNA and Numerous scientific studies have repeatedly shown that chronic stress is able to accelerate the process of reducing the length of the telomere, thereby accelerating and actual aging.

The authors of the study were quite a few surprised to find a significant association between a decrease in telomere length and socio-economic status of families in which the boys were growing, low material wealth of their parents, low education level, tough education and general instability of family life. The researchers admitted that expect to see shortened telomeres in the DNA of mothers with children from poor families, who face the maximum stress, but it turned out that this phenomenon I observed it in their children.

The results were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (READ MORE)

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