NUS study in 2016: Impatient women age faster

[laksaboy]

http://news.nus.edu.sg/press-releas...-study-finds-impatient-young-women-age-faster

In using the behavioural economic game known as delay discounting, the team could elicit one’s patience in deferring an immediate monetary reward for a larger future reward. Those who were less able to hold out for the future are considered “impatient”.

The results from this study show that there is a correlation between young women who were identified as impatient, and shorter telomere length. The finding was robust after controlling for health-related variables and risk attitude.

Prof Ebstein added, “Patience is indeed a virtue and women with impatient personality types are likely growing older at a faster pace than women disposed to be more patient.”

Remarkably, in women carrying particular variants of the oxytocin receptor and oestrogen receptor genes, the team found that impatient women with the ‘right’ gene variants had longer telomeres. “This suggests that even an unfavourable and possibly deleterious trait such as impatience can in part be tempered by protective genes”, said Prof Ebstein.

There was, however, no correlation observed between impatience and cellular ageing in young men.

 

[eatshitndie]

"am i one of them?"

 

[steffychun]

Just like Monica Baey.

 

[laksaboy]

"am i one of them?"
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