The use of tanning beds is associated with increase almost three times the risk of melanoma and younger users experience genetic changes that can cause more mutations in skin cells than people twice their age. A study which publishes Scientific advances indicates that users of these devices had twice as many mutations and that they appeared even in less sensitive areas of the body. sunny.
People between 30 and 40 years old who use this type of bronze inside “they had even more mutation than people in the general population between 70 and 80 years old”, according to researcher Bishal Tandukar, of the University of California at San Francisco (United States) and one of the signatories of the article. Likewise, the team compared the medical histories of more than 3,000 tanning bed users with the same number of people of the same age without a history of indoor tanning. In addition, they obtained skin samples from 26 donors and sequenced 182 cells.
The analysis of the data, once adjusted for age, sex, history of sunburn and family members, revealed that the use of tanning beds was “associated with a 2.85 times higher risk of melanoma”, Northwestern University (United States), another signatory, said in a statement. Furthermore, the young people they presented more mutations skin than people twice their age, especially at the lumbar level, which does not suffer much sun damage, but is heavily exposed to tanning beds.
“We cannot reverse a mutation once it has occurred. It is therefore essential limit the number of those that accumulate, and “one of the simplest ways is to avoid exposure to artificial UV rays,” said study signatory Hunter Shain of the University of California. THE deckchairs, At the molecular level, skin cells mutate a lot out of reach of the sun ordinary, according to the authors.
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