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People often suffer from depression, age faster positive individuals
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Scientists from the Netherlands have found that if a person is often observed depression and subdepressive state, his body may age faster than the optimistic and positive personalities.
The basic material for research specialists involved 1,900 people who at some point in his life occurred long and pronounced depressive disorders and the control group were 500 people, have never suffered from depression. In the experiment, the researchers examined the length of telomeres - the end portions of chromosomes. Each time a cell division, the telomere is shortened slightly so, as to its size can be judged on the age of the cells.
It was found that the tendency to depression study participants telomere length on average was less than that of volunteers of the same age from the control group. According to the leaders of the study, long-term depression has about the same effect on the biological age of the organism, such as alcohol abuse, smoking, obesity and other factors. The experimental results are published in the November issue of the journal «Molecular Psychiatry».
"Stress has a significant impact on the" bottom "of the body, which leads to an acceleration of the aging process," - says study author Yoshino Verhoeven, an employee of the Free University of Amsterdam. The experiment also showed that depression higher risk of cancer, diabetes, dementia and other ailments. This may indicate that more intensive aging provokes is not stress itself, and disease, which, because it develops more often than usual.
Researchers have shown a correlation between the presence of depression and telomere length, but not a causal relationship, and recognize that, perhaps, the basis of these two phenomena is such factors as genetic predisposition. Curiously, by the enzyme DNA polymerase and telomeres can recover, so that, according to Yoshino Verhoeven, an active and healthy lifestyle has a positive effect on its duration, as it promotes the production of this enzyme.
via factroom.ru
Scientists from the Netherlands have found that if a person is often observed depression and subdepressive state, his body may age faster than the optimistic and positive personalities.
The basic material for research specialists involved 1,900 people who at some point in his life occurred long and pronounced depressive disorders and the control group were 500 people, have never suffered from depression. In the experiment, the researchers examined the length of telomeres - the end portions of chromosomes. Each time a cell division, the telomere is shortened slightly so, as to its size can be judged on the age of the cells.
It was found that the tendency to depression study participants telomere length on average was less than that of volunteers of the same age from the control group. According to the leaders of the study, long-term depression has about the same effect on the biological age of the organism, such as alcohol abuse, smoking, obesity and other factors. The experimental results are published in the November issue of the journal «Molecular Psychiatry».
"Stress has a significant impact on the" bottom "of the body, which leads to an acceleration of the aging process," - says study author Yoshino Verhoeven, an employee of the Free University of Amsterdam. The experiment also showed that depression higher risk of cancer, diabetes, dementia and other ailments. This may indicate that more intensive aging provokes is not stress itself, and disease, which, because it develops more often than usual.
Researchers have shown a correlation between the presence of depression and telomere length, but not a causal relationship, and recognize that, perhaps, the basis of these two phenomena is such factors as genetic predisposition. Curiously, by the enzyme DNA polymerase and telomeres can recover, so that, according to Yoshino Verhoeven, an active and healthy lifestyle has a positive effect on its duration, as it promotes the production of this enzyme.
via factroom.ru
