Unemployment accelerates ageing

The longer the periods of unemployment, the greater the impact on health. ©Phovoir   According to a study conducted by teams of British and Finnish researchers, long-term unemployment may accelerate ageing. The scientists reached this conclusion on the basis of telomere length – a journey to the very heart of DNA. Teams at Imperial College in London and Oulu in Finland, studied DNA samples from 5,620 Finnish people born in 1966. More specifically, they measured the telomere length. Situated at the ends of chromosomes, telomeres become shorter as the years go by and therefore constitute an excellent marker for ageing, […]