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Work-related premature ageing: old concept but emerging stakes
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Many industrial countries try to raise the retirement age in a context of economic constraints, ageing populations and public pension funds financial difficulties.1 ,2 One important barrier for delaying retirement is premature ageing caused by arduous and difficult working conditions, a situation known for many decades, if not centuries.3 Although general health has improved in the last century in most industrial countries, clearly indicating more successful ageing, many social inequalities remain.4 These inequalities stem in part from different work trajectories, which in turn, may explain premature ageing,5 without existing cellular ageing indicator. …