Helsinki: Experts have claimed that the biological age of men increases faster than that of women.
In a unique study of its kind, anti-aging scientists found that men in their fifties were biologically four years older than their female counterparts. was present.
A team of researchers from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland compared the chronological age (how many years they have passed) of thousands of volunteers to their biological age.
The scientists did this using a test that estimates the body’s vulnerability based on signals linked to DNA.
Although the scientists found a difference between the ages in the study, they believe that the difference has decreased over time, possibly due to a decline in smoking rates among men.
In Finland in the 1970s, 37 percent of men smoked cigarettes, which has now fallen to 17 percent, while the trend among women is about the same (about 15 percent).
The team of researchers said that one of the main reasons why men lived longer was their body mass index. Men were more affected by obesity than women.
Research published in the Journal of Gerontology: Series A may help explain why women live longer than men.
