It's a little double trouble. Frontal Wrinkles, a clear sign of aging, could also warn of a risk of cardiovascular disease. At the Congress of the European Society of Cardiology, which ended in Munich (Germany) on August 29, 2018, a team of French researchers presented an original work.
For twenty years, they followed a group of 3200 adults aged 32, 42, 52 and 62, in good health at the beginning of the study.
For each of them, the researchers calculated a score corresponding to the number and the depth of the wrinkles blocking their forehead horizontally.
A score of 0 (no wrinkles) to 3 (many deep wrinkles) was attributed to them.
According to these researchers, a score of 1 marks a slight increase in the risk of cardiovascular disease and death due to this type of pathology, compared to a score of 0. More worryingly, a score of 2 or 3 multiplies by 10 risk.
How to explain it? The researchers note that wrinkles and blood vessels have one thing in common: collagen. Wrinkles are related to a loss of elasticity of the skin, due to a deficit in collagen.
But this collagen also ensures the elasticity of the blood vessels. And the stiffer the arteries, the more the risk of cardiovascular disease increases.
Dr. Yolande Esquirol of the University Hospital of Toulouse, one of the authors of the study, believes that the forehead wrinkles could play the role of alarm signal, prompting to carry out more advanced and more conventional examinations such as the determination of cholesterol or the measurement of high blood pressure.
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