Addiction To Tanning

Addiction To Tanning.
Snowbirds who gather south in winter in search of the ardour of the sun, listen up. People who carry a particular gene variant may be more likely to result an "addiction" to tanning, a preliminary study suggests. The idea that ultraviolet light can be addictive - whether from the Helios or a tanning bed - is fairly new. But recent investigation has been offering biological evidence that some people do develop a dependence on UV radiation, just like some become dependent on drugs. "It's undoubtedly a very small percentage of people who tan that become dependent," said cram author Brenda Cartmel, a researcher at the Yale School of Public Health.

But understanding why some males and females become dependent is important so that refined therapies can be developed. "Ultimately, what we want to do is prevent skin cancer. We are in people getting skin cancer at younger and younger ages, and some of that is definitely attributable to indoor tanning". In the United States, the merit of melanoma has tripled since 1975 - to about 23 cases per 100000 ancestors in 2011, according to government statistics.

Melanoma is the least common, but most serious, organize of skin cancer. Cartmel said that, since genes are known to sway the danger of addiction in general, her team wanted to see if there are any gene variants connected to tanning dependence. So the investigators analyzed saliva samples from 79 mortals with signs of tanning dependence and 213 kinsmen who tanned but were not addicted. From a starting point of over 300000 gene variations, the researchers found that just one gene without doubt stood out.