Wrinkles on the forehead show who has a 10 times higher risk of premature death

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Most people want to live to old age and there are several ways to determine who will. Research shows that it all comes down to a confluence of factors, including genetics and lifestyle. However, by what signs can a successful or unsuccessful coincidence of factors be determined? Scientists recommend paying attention to wrinkles on the forehead.

The author of the new study, Yolanda Esquirol, a doctor at the University of Toulouse Hospital in France, says: “It is almost impossible to see or feel risk factors such as cholesterol or hypertension. We investigated forehead wrinkles as a marker because they are easy to detect.

As a result, scientists established a link between the risk of cardiovascular disease and forehead wrinkles. However, they emphasize that the data need to be confirmed in future studies.

As part of their work, the team studied forehead wrinkles in a sample of 3,200 adults aged 32 to 62, all of whom were healthy. Participants were assigned scores based on the depth of forehead wrinkles: a score of zero meant no wrinkles and a score of three meant many deep wrinkles.

Participants were followed for 20 years. During this period, 233 people died from various causes. Of those who died, 15.2 percent had wrinkles of two and three, 6.6 percent had wrinkles of one, and 2.1 percent had no wrinkles.

Those with a score of one , had a higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease compared to patients without wrinkles. The risk of death increased dramatically for people with a large number of wrinkles.

Those who scored between two and three had almost 10 times the risk of death compared to people with a score of zero. These results were obtained after adjusting for age, sex, education, smoking status, blood pressure, heart rate, diabetes and blood lipid levels.