Early menopause, insomnia makes women age faster
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 26-07-2016
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"We discovered that menopause speeds up cellular aging by an average of 6 percent," said Horvath. "That doesn't sound like much but it adds up over a woman's lifespan."
In the sleep study, Carroll and her colleagues drew their data from more than 2,000 women in the WHI. Using the epigenetic clock, they found that postmenopausal women with five insomnia symptoms were nearly two years older biologically than women the same chronological age with no insomnia symptoms.