Austerity'S toxic genetic legacy

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2912, 2013, pág. 6
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • From financial breakdown in Portugal to the UK's so-called bedroom tax, the harsh effects of austerity measures are hitting people in ways unseen in decades. Many are focused on the most imminent challenges to their well-being--increased costs of living and job security, for example. But new insights into how genes linked with disease are triggered in times of stress suggest that we should be paying just as much attention to the long-term effects of austerity on health. The more immediate health impacts of economic cuts were documented in The Lancet, revealing that suicides in Europe have soared since the financial crash in 2008, with 1000 extra deaths in England alone by 2010. Hre, Coghlan discusses the stress of recession that may trigger gene changes that threaten the health of generations