COMMON blood-pressure drugs that help prevent the life-threatening complications of diabetes may do so by slowing the accelerated ageing from which diabetics suffer. The discovery could one day lead to drugs that delay some of the symptoms of ageing in everyone.
People with diabetes tend to age rapidly, particularly if they have type 1 diabetes, which strikes in childhood. Those with the condition often go blind, and they suffer from heart and kidney disease and high blood pressure far earlier than normal. Their skin can wrinkle in their 20s.
“The rule of thumb is that people look as old as their chronological age plus the duration…
