{"id":564,"date":"2021-05-20T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rod-am.eu\/?p=564"},"modified":"2021-05-20T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T15:56:00","slug":"why-african-migrants-live-longer-than-those-who-stay-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rod-am.eu\/why-african-migrants-live-longer-than-those-who-stay-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Why African migrants live longer than those who stay behind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week, Felix Chilunga and team published their results in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2666756821000878\">The Lancet Healthy Longevity<\/a> comparing the epigenetic age of RODAM participants living in Ghana and Europe, and showed that the cells of European Ghanaians were ageing less rapidly than in the home-based Ghanaians. This interesting finding and its implications are discussed on the website of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amc.nl\/web\/nieuws-en-verhalen\/actueel\/actueel\/Why-African-migrants-live-longer-than-those-who-stay-behind.htm\">Amsterdam UMC<\/a> and in a commentary in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2666756821000982\">The Lancet Healthy Longevity<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Felix Chilunga and team published their results in The Lancet Healthy Longevity comparing the epigenetic age of RODAM participants living in Ghana and Europe, and showed that the cells of European Ghanaians were ageing less rapidly than in the home-based Ghanaians. This interesting finding and its implications are discussed on the website of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rod-am.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rod-am.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rod-am.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rod-am.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rod-am.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rod-am.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/www.rod-am.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rod-am.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rod-am.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rod-am.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}