Faster biological aging consistently linked to poverty and discrimination

submitted by supersquirrel to publichealth 18 points | 1 comments https://phys.org/news/2026-06-faster-biological-aging-linked-poverty.html link to open access study www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02477-6 > There is now abundant correlational evidence linking a range of socially stratified exposures with epigenetic clock measures of biological ageing (for example, environmental toxicants, access to healthcare and stress)6,10,57,58,59,60. Quasi-experimental studies further provide causal evidence that early-life conditions—poverty, in utero undernutrition from famine and lower educational attainment—accelerate later-life epigenetic ageing32,61,62