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Women show signs of cellular ageing at 19 that hit men at age 40

Biopsy reports of nearly 5 million people suggest that markers that are thought to be signs of ageing, such as inflammation and the formation of giant cells, occurred two decades earlier in the female participants than in the male participants

By David Cox

19 March 2023

The timing and rate of cellular ageing in male and female bodies may differ substantially

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Women’s cells show the hallmark signs of ageing in early adulthood, whereas this tends to only occur in men from age 40, according to new research.

Michael Ben Ezra at the University of Copenhagen’s Center for Healthy Aging and his colleagues used machine learning to analyse 33 million biopsy reports taken from more than 4.9 million individuals, ranging from newborn babies to people who were more than 100 years old, between 1970 and 2018. Transgender …

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