"...The study is the first to show accelerated biological aging in childhood as a result of stress. "Those kids are 'older' than they are supposed to be," said study leader Idan Shalev, a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University. If the cellular aging isn't reversed...the children would likely be at risk for premature death....The violence does not necessarily have to affect the child physically, the researchers report today (April 24) in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. Instead, it seems the telomere shortening is a result of cumulative stress....But the study also highlights the long-term damage that childhood trauma can create, said Elissa Epel, a health psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies stress and cell aging, who wasn't involved in the current study."
http://www.livescience.com/19858-bullying-child-abuse-aging.html
Please see the video: http://tiny.cc/telomeres
More studies: http://tiny.cc/telomere-research
I thought this April study and the topic of telomeres was worth posting.
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