Researchers Think Our Eyes Could Reveal How Rapidly We're Ageing

One section of the eye is associated with “cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cancer, dementia and death”.

You already know your chronological age (the amount of years you’ve been alive). But working out your biological age – the “wear and tear happening inside the body at a cellular and molecular level” – isn’t as simple as counting candles on a cake.

However, there are clues.

Scientists think that how long we can stand on one leg may reveal how well our brains are doing, for instance.

And now, researchers have suggested that a scan of the retina, or the light-sensitive tissue at the back of our eyes, could give us a good guess at people’s biological ageing, too.

How can our retinas help show how we’re ageing?

The retina is closely linked........

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