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Repeated exposure to the sun ages everyone, but new research now shows that there are remarkable differences between white and black skin in terms of damage sustained by the effects of the sun. Dr Abigail Langton, a research fellow at the University of Manchester compared black and white 18 to 30 year olds with seventy years olds and found ageing happens about fifty years more slowly in black people than white. The study was written up in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswjlt

Period14 Feb 2019

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  • TitleHealth Check
    Media name/outletBBC World Service
    Media typeRadio
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date14/02/19
    DescriptionRepeated exposure to the sun ages everyone, but new research now shows that there are remarkable differences between white and black skin in terms of damage sustained by the effects of the sun. Dr Abigail Langton, a research fellow at the University of Manchester compared black and white 18 to 30 year olds with seventy years olds and found ageing happens about fifty years more slowly in black people than white. The study was written up in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswjlt
    URLhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswjlt
    PersonsAbigail Langton
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Keywords

  • dermatology
  • skin ageing