Genetic predisposition to advanced
biological ageing increases risk for childhood - onset recurrent major depressive disorder in a large UK sample.
Not exact matches
«Do they act on certain
biological processes that
increase risk for poor health — for instance, delaying
age - related
increases in systemic inflammation?
«We've got a marker for
biological aging — telomere length — so we're studying whether we can relate it to the
increased risk of getting some of these
age - associated diseases.
«Childhood poverty, poor support may drive up pregnant woman's
biological age: Cellular
aging could
increase risks for mom and baby, researchers say.»
The dual findings, respectively published July 25 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and
Biological Psychiatry, suggest these factors could
increase women's risk for
aging - related diseases and earlier death.
Now, a Harvard team has discovered a link between
aging and a core
biological process known as RNA splicing, which may be manipulated to not only
increase our lifespan, but help us stay healthier for longer.
However, in this study the researchers tested whether it could also work the other way round: i.e. could genetic factors that promote faster
biological ageing predict an
increased risk for depression?
Periods of volcanism can cool the climate (as with the 1991 Pinatubo eruption), methane emissions from
increased biological activity can warm the climate, and slight changes in solar output and orbital variations can all have climate effects which are much shorter in duration than the ice
age cycles, ranging from less than a decade to a thousand years in duration (the Younger Dryas).
Genetic factors which predispose people to accelerated «
biological ageing» also
increase their risk of developing depression in childhood, according to a new study from King's College London.
He says the «
biological clock» is simply a term people use to describe a fall in fertility associated with
increasing age.
Telomere length is arguably the best marker of
biological age, and shorter mean telomere length, usually measured in your white blood cells, is associated with
increased risk of heart disease, obesity, cancer, stroke, dementia, and premature death (2).
This suggests that the
biological mechanisms underlying depression at this
age do not
increase subsequent risk of psychotic experiences once they resolve.