Physical, Emotional Abuses in Childhood May Accelerate Human Body Ageing : Research Study

Physical, Emotional Abuses in Childhood May Accelerate Human Body Ageing : Research Study

Rhode Island (ABC Live): A latest US Biological Psychiatry research has suggested that physical or emotional exploitation in childhood may lead to acceleration in body ageing process of a human.

Rhode Island (ABC Live): A latest US Biological Psychiatry research has suggested that physical or emotional exploitation in childhood may lead to acceleration in body ageing process of a human.

A team of Brown University located in Providence, Rhode Island, headed by Dr Audrey Tyrka found, the people who had reported abuse in their childhood grow rapidly then others.

The researcher focused on telomeres, the protective caps on the chromosomes that keep a cell's DNA stable but shorten with age, and documented the ageing process of 31 people, who had faced physical or emotional abuses during their childhood.  

Know about Telomeres:

Telomere is a region in DNA resides at the end of chromosome, which protect from further destruction.

Role of Telomere in body ageing process:

As human body is made of cells, many new cells developed in body always, during cell division the enzymes that duplicate the chromosome and its DNA cannot continue their duplication all the way to the end of the chromosome. If cells divided without telomeres, they would lose the ends of their chromosomes, and the necessary information they contain.

Shorter telomere lengths are linked to ageing and certain diseases, so it is possible that this is a mechanism of risk for illness following childhood abuse.