Study Finds Parental Alcohol Use Disorders Linked to Accelerated Aging in Children
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In a recent published study journal in the Ageing and Disease have discovered that parents who struggle with alcohol use disorders can pass along symptoms of early ageing to their children, affecting them well into adulthood. The accelerated ageing effects such as high cholesterol, heart problems, arthritis, and early onset dementia that can be inherited from either parent individually. However, they become more severe when both parents struggle with alcohol abuse, particularly in male offspring.
As adults get older, they develop a biological condition called senescence, which is when cells slow down and stop dividing, limiting the body's ability to replace deteriorating cells. Using a mouse model, research by Golding and his team revealed that senescence also happens to be one of the early-ageing symptoms that offspring can inherit from parents who daily drink alcohol to the legal limit or more.
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