Race determines the speed of aging?

A new study is debating when it comes to claiming that a person's race determines their biological age and that people of color are aging faster than whites, in terms of health.

The study authors claimed, their work revealed new details about higher death rates in people of color.

"We found, on average, people of color tend to be 3 years older, biologically, than white people. Colored people are suffering from the raging of disease and death. earlier in life than white people , " researchers Morgan Levine and Eileen Crimmins from Davis School of Aging at the University of Southern California (USA) wrote in the journal Social Science and Medicine.

Biologically, at the same age, "older" people are 3 years older than whites.(Artwork: Corbis)

According to the research team, their findings are consistent with the findings of previous studies that people of color possessing many biological risk factors refer to biologically older owners. Such early decline may signal the acceleration of aging.

Experts Levine and Crimmins also found that the biological age difference between black and white people seems to increase until the age of 60 - 65 and then decrease, given mainly by death. death.

To draw these conclusions, the researchers calculated the biological age of each person by examining 10 biological signs associated with aging, including reactive protein C, serum creatinine, glycosylated hemoglobin, Systolic blood pressure and total cholesterol. They also looked at whether the body mass index, the educational background and whether or not the study subjects were or were smoking.

Experts said that the cause of the age difference between people of color and white people may be related to stress. Every daily stress factor associated with being a colored person can negatively affect the functioning of the body, and chronic exposure to these factors accumulates throughout life, possibly leads to disadvantage in the aging process.