Danes age more slowly than their counterparts in any other country, according to new research. Next came those in the Netherlands and Finland. Egyptians age fastest, with South Africanss and South Americans near the bottom of the table. An international team of reearchers analysed data from over 160,000 people in 40 countries to assess the impact on ageing of environmental and socioeconomic forces. They used a measure called the ‘biobehavioural age gap’ clock, an AI model that calculates the difference between someone’s chronological and predicted age, based on the risk factors around them. Unsurprisingly, people in lower income countries have the longest gaps while overall, those in northern and western Europe have the shortest. As for the Danes, it emerged that they are an average of 2.35 years “younger” than their chronological age. The researchers found that the key factors were physical, such as air quality, and social ones, including gender equality and socioeconomic status.
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