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[Prine]

People with fewer qualifications are prone to age more quickly, a study which looked at 400 men and women says.

DNA evidence suggests cellular ageing is more advanced in adults with no qualifications compared with those who have a university degree

Those from poor backgrounds are more likely to smoke more, take less exercise and have less access to good quality healthcare, compared with more wealthy people.

They also speculate that well qualified people might be under less long-term stress, or be better able to deal with stress.

Professor Andrew Steptoe, from University College London, who led the study, said: "Education is a marker of social class that people acquire early in life, and our research suggests that it is long-term exposure to the conditions of lower status that promotes accelerated cellular ageing."

Professor Steptoe's team took blood from more than 400 men and women aged between 53 and 75.

They then measured the length of sections of DNA found at the ends of chromosomes.

These sections - called "telomeres" - cap chromosomes, protecting them from damage. Shorter telomeres are thought to be an indicator of faster ageing.

The results showed that people with lower educational attainment had shorter telomeres, indicating that they may age faster.

They also indicated that telomere length was not affected by a person's social and economic status later in life, as was previously thought.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13345620

 

[Veidt]

Something needs to be done about this. It isn't right. Because education isn't a free thing, unlike what we all have been led to believe.
Plus, opportunities are not the same all across the board.

 

[BloodySinner]

They also speculate that well qualified people might be under less long-term stress, or be better able to deal with stress.

Those from poor backgrounds are more likely to smoke more, take less exercise and have less access to good quality healthcare, compared with more wealthy people.

No shit.

 

[justin.au]

Oh, to have a PhD.

 

[AceBandage]

Unless you get into a high stress field like politics.
Then you'll age 40 years in a few months.

 

[Corky]

yeah uhm that's also a way on interpreting data.

" Rich people are faster than poor people "
" studies of 200 people shows that when prompted to cross the US a fortune 500 ceo managed to do it much faster than a homeless man we found on the street "

 

[daviyoung]

Experts think education might help people lead more healthy lives.

Really?!

 

[Zep]

look at those hard hitting fachts!

 

[Corky]

Really?!

Well, you and I might not understand it but man, they're experts.

 

[TacticalFox88]

Once again, science confirming common sense. -.-

 

[daviyoung]

Well, you and I might not understand it but man, they're experts.

Oh man, wish I was an expert. Guess that's why I look 64.

 

[teruterubozu]

Captain obvious is growing laaarger.

 

[Shiggie]

Because presidents age gracefully...

 

[Angry Fork]

Because presidents age gracefully...

Presidents aren't highly educated.

 

[astroturfing]

oh great.. maybe i should not have quit uni :| being unemployed and poor kinda sucks, especially if i die sooner too. goddamnit.

 

[Vinterbird]

Something needs to be done about this. It isn't right. Because education isn't a free thing, unlike what we all have been led to believe.
Plus, opportunities are not the same all across the board.

It's free (basic school, high school, university education) here (Denmark). What countries apart from USA doesn't have free education? Canada?

 

[justin.au]

Presidents aren't highly educated.

Say what?

 

[Scrow]

sweet

i'm thinking of going back to university next year to begin working on getting a third degree. i'm going to live to be +200!

 

[justin.au]

sweet

i'm thinking of going back to university next year to begin working on getting a third degree. i'm going to live to be +200!

Stay in school forever. That way you can never die.

 

[computers putin']

Stay in school forever. That way you can never die.

sweet, the key to immortality has been found! we dun did it guys!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chinese Electric Batman]

Good thing I stayed in school.

 

[projekt84]

So it starts off with education as the key differentiator, then moves on to say it's just poor people who die faster. Quaint.

 

[madara]

Yawn another bs study. The world has changed, we're at 7 billion, advanced education means nothing when it expected from nearly everyone now and you still cant land a good job. I expect a study like this to be completely irrelevant in the direction our future is heading.

 

[Ignis Fatuus]

Presidents aren't highly educated.

Have you taken a look at the current one lately?

 

[Angry Fork]

Have you taken a look at the current one lately?

I was kidding, although many presidents have done things that are either of low-intelligence or because they're plain evil. Evil sounds more likely.

 

[SolarPowered]

Have you taken a look at the current one lately?

He should have said some Presidents are not highly educated.

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

It's all about the stress imo. Stress will age you faster than anything. Speaking of Presidents, just look at the President before and after pics.

 

[.la1n]

This is probably one of the dumbest things I have ever read. I am part of the working poor and I assure you I have less stress than the surgeons running around here like chickens with their heads cut off.

I love the ceo running cross country analogy, you know that fatass can't run.

 

[friskykillface]

It's all about the stress imo. Stress will age you faster than anything. Speaking of Presidents, just look at the President before and after pics.

this

also being an insomniac/ getting little sleep, i looked like i have aged a bit do my lack of sleep this semester, dem dark circles lol