Study links insulin resistance and advanced cell aging with childhood poverty
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Black adolescents who lived in poverty and were less optimistic about the future showed accelerated aging in their immune cells...
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Type 2 diabetes accelerates brain aging and cognitive decline — ScienceDaily
Scientists have demonstrated that normal brain aging is accelerated by approximately 26% in people with progressive type 2 diabetes compared with individuals without the...
Type 2 diabetes accelerates brain aging and cognitive decline
This image shows the effects of aging effects on the brain, further exacerbated in type 2 diabetes. Credit: Lilianne Mujica-Parodi (CC BY 4.0) Scientists...
Key to how exercise protects against consequences of aging — ScienceDaily
Monash University scientists have discovered an enzyme that is key to why exercise improves our health. Importantly this discovery has opened up the possibility...
Mothers’ diabetes may induce premature aging of neural tissue in early development of fetuses, leading to birth defects
Neural tube of a mouse embryo from a mother with diabetes at 8 (left) and 8.5 (right) days old with marker of premature aging...