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supportive friendships to toxic colleagues, our relationships can shape our stress levels more than our jobs, finances, or even our diet and health habits. A new study suggests that who we surround ourselves can negatively affect our longevity. Scientists Indiana University in the USA conducted a study how the people around us can impact the stress our lives. The researchers focused the effect people called "hasslers" had us. A hassler is an annoying individual who regularly hassles us. Lead researcher Professor Brea Perry said, "having more hasslers is associated accelerated biological aging...and how much wear and tear [people] have their body".

The study is published the journal PNAS. Researchers questioned participants the difficult relationships their lives to identify hasslers. Dr Perry found around one third the participants had least one hassler in their social network. She said about 10 per cent had least two hasslers. She suggested that each additional hassler was associated a 1.5 per cent faster pace of aging. Perry added: "It can actually take days that stress response to drop and for your body to go back to normal." She highlighted the adverse effects accumulated stress hasslers, saying: "When you experience that chronically, over and over again, it has this long-term effect the body."