Study: Black people actually age faster than Whites
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Researchers say black people appear to be biologically three years older older than whites
Biological age differences by race increase up until ages 60-69, and then decline
Black people age more quickly than white people, a controversial new study has claimed.
'Our results showed that, on average, blacks tend to be more than three years older biologically than whites,' Morgan Levine and Eileen Crimmins of the University of Southern California’s Davis School of Gerontology.Wrote in the journal Social Science and Medicine.
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How They Did it:
The current study uses data on 7,644 black and white participants, ages 30 and above, from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
The researchers calculated each participant’s 'biological age' by looking at 10 biomarkers that have been linked to aging, including C-reactive protein, serum creatinine, glycosylated hemoglobin, systolic blood pressure, and total cholesterol.
The team compared then compared biological ages of blacks and whites as indicated from the biomarkers.
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'Everyday stressors associated with being black may negatively impact physiological functioning and, under chronic exposure, accumulate over the lifespan and contribute to growing disparities in biological risk,' the authors wrote.
'Furthermore, if such environmental, behavioral, and mental factors contribute to an acceleration of the aging process, we would expect that persons who are aging the fastest should have the highest risk of mortality, and thus (have a) lower life expectancy.'
These are just individuals. They do not represent the whole race, nor are they a wide, diverse sample. These pics were not picked randomly, and for a sample in a study like this to be as accurate as possible, it has to be picked randomly.
Interesting. I think environmental factors play a role like the study said.
