But although photoageing is delayed, other signs of ageing skin are not. Black skin is more prone to age spots, to dark patches on the skin and to harmless brown growths known as seborrheic keratosis. These same features show up in the very few studies that have been done with South Asians. Many East and South East Asians also find that their skin develops this bumpy texture as the years go by. Not only this, but while the wrinkles stay away, people with darker skins are more likely to find their chins sag, their cheeks hollow and pockets of fatty tissue develop under the eyes as they get older.
In fact, wherever you are on the Fitzpatrick Scale, looking at the list of ways in which the skin changes over time is probably something best avoided. The truth is none of us can escape the ravages of ageing. Nevertheless our skin will eventually reveal our years. For a lucky few, though, those wrinkles are delayed. African-American and white women in the study did have similar scores when it came to skin elasticity, as measured with a device called a durometer. And among white women, declining elasticity in the skin was related to time since menopause.
Taylor and his colleagues based their findings on women taking part in an ongoing clinical trial known as KEEPS, which is looking at the effects of hormone therapy, begun soon after menopause, and the risk of heart disease.
As a side question of that trial, the researchers will also look at whether hormone therapy has any effects on skin aging. In , a large U. Women in that study were about 63 years old, on average; the KEEPS trial is testing the theory that starting women on hormone therapy soon after menopause, when they are in their 40s and 50s, will have heart benefits.
Asian may not raisin, but we do speckle. Extrinsic and intrinsic aging factors are so intertwined that, Dr. We do tend to age like our mothers.
Already a subscriber? Log in or link your magazine subscription. Account Profile. Sign Out. Photo: Courtesy of Summit Entertainment. It is in many ways a luxury to live so close to the sea. Yet Australians may be paying for that luxury, not just with the ridiculous cost of living, but with our faces. Our sunburnt country, hot gold hush of noon and pitiless blue skies have little mercy on our pale skin, which is ageing by as much as two decades faster than our counterparts in Europe and America.
Our outdoor lifestyles have a downside. Credit: Stocksy. A new study by dermatologists at Monash University explained that Australia's proximity to the equator, the high sun elevation and generally clear skies mean we face higher levels of UV radiation than those in Europe and North America.
They weren't sure exactly what the extent of that risk was. So they asked women from Australia, Canada, the UK and the US to compare parts of their faces looking at wrinkling, pigment and sagging across the forehead, nose, cheeks and mouth to images showing varying degrees of ageing.
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