A global study finds people age faster in countries with more inequality ๐, weaker democracies ๐ณ๏ธ, and more pollution ๐ซ๏ธ. Education helps slow the process ๐. Stress and unfairness may be ageing us, literally. โณ
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Nature
Why do ageing rates vary by country? Massive study says politics play a part
Nature - Social inequality and the decay of democratic institutions are linked to accelerated ageing โ but education seems to slow the process.
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Studies show that certain mutations are common in people living in areas of pollution ๐๐จ and are responsible for lung cancer in non-smokers ๐ญ๐ซ. Gift article.
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NY Times
Many Lung Cancers Are Now in Nonsmokers. Scientists Want to Know Why. (Gift Article)
The face of lung cancer โ once older men with a history of smoking โ has changed.
Beached dolphins show signs of Alzheimer's due to polluted waters: stranded dolphins showed brain damage eerily similar to that of people with Alzheimer's. Just as people with dementia sometimes wander far from home, scientists think dolphins with Alzheimer's might get confused at sea. ๐ฌ๐๐๐ง
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New Atlas
Beached dolphins show signs of Alzheimer's due to polluted waters
In 2022, scientists examined the brains of 22 stranded marine mammals and found something astonishing: Alzheimer's-like pathology in dolphins. And not just vague signs, actual amyloid plaques and tau tangles, the same hallmarks seen in human patients.
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