2023-10-16 09:10:36
“Housing instability shortens life expectancy compared to smoking and obesity.”
Aging acceleration and causality
▲ Apartment complex. Seoul Shinmun DB A study showed that housing instability accelerates aging more than smoking or obesity.
According to the BBC and the New York Post on the 16th (Korean time), a research team from the University of Essex and the University of Adelaide in Australia revealed that unstable residential environments may be a factor that promotes biological aging.
This is the result of a comparative analysis of aging rates by collecting detailed living environment and additional health information from 1,420 people who participated in the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). The study was published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
As a result of the study, it was found that tenants who rent private housing experience biological aging regarding 17 days faster per year. This accelerated aging faster than unemployment (9.9 days), obesity (8.4 days), or smoking (7.7 days).
Biological aging is the decline in body tissues and cellular functions regardless of actual age, which is accelerated in stressful situations.
This means that the intensity of stress caused by unstable housing issues is that high. When the actual living environment became stable, the acceleration of aging decreased.
Tenants of public rental housing, who are guaranteed a relatively long rental period and receive a significant portion of the rent subsidized by the government, were found to age 4.8 days faster per year. ▲ Country house image (not related to the article above). Seoul Newspaper DB
“Narrow living spaces made people age 5.1 days faster per year.”
Living environment also affected aging. An environment with limited living space due to overcrowding also causes people to age 5.1 days faster per year.
Poor living conditions with insufficient heating facilities made people age faster by 8.8 days per year, and water leaks from roofs caused them to age faster by 4.8 days per year.
Even thinking regarding moving accelerated aging. For example, if you want to live longer in your current residence but have to move due to contract issues, the acceleration of aging hastened by 3.3 days per year. People who felt burdened by monthly and lease payments also aged 5.5 days faster per year.
The apartment-centered residential environment also accelerated aging. People living in apartment-style housing, such as multi-generational or multi-family housing, which is the dominant housing type in Korea, aged 12 days faster per year.
Conversely, when living in a rural area with a relatively good natural environment, aging was delayed by 2.19 days per year.
Amy Clare of the Australian Center for Housing Studies, who participated in the study, said, “The cost of housing that tenants can afford, the length of their lease that they can afford to live in, and their living environment have real and important consequences for their personal health.” “The rate of biological aging is related to health.” “There is a direct relationship with deterioration, increased risk of chronic diseases, and death,” he explained.
Reporter Kim Chae-hyeon
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