Loneliness and unhappiness can age us faster than smoking: New study - Fox News

Being lonely and feeling unhappy can accelerate the aging process more than smoking, according to a recent article published in Aging-US.

For some people, the aging process moves more quickly than for others, which is referred to as "accelerated aging.".

But we also have an "aging clock" that is influenced by our genetics, life choices and the environment, the report added.

But for some people, the aging process moves more quickly, which is referred to as "accelerated aging.".

The researchers developed an aging clock based on blood panels from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) dataset to define the biological age in a sample of Chinese adults. .

The authors noted that China has the lowest percentage of "successful agers" among East Asian countries.

Because of the large population of China, the number of people over 65 years old in China is higher compared to the number of people over 65 in all of Europe — so the study notes that "understanding aging in China can thus provide important insights on aging in the world."

The researchers developed a new "aging clock" with blood and biometric data of 11,914 Chinese adults. 

"An aging clock is a digital model of aging [based] on thousands of human samples," Galkin told Fox News Digital

The study found that people with a history of stroke, liver and lung diseases — as well as smokers — had accelerated aging. 

The early detection of accelerated aging can have real-world applications to "help prevent the onset of aging-related diseases or find ways to slow down aging."

The early detection of accelerated aging can have real-world applications to "help prevent the onset of aging-related diseases or find ways to slow down aging," said Galkin to Fox News Digital

The study’s aging clock could also motivate future ways to "slow down or even reverse psychological aging on a national scale," added co-author Dr