Early experiences of threat, but not deprivation, are associated with accelerated biological aging in children and adolescents

JA Sumner, NL Colich, M Uddin, D Armstrong… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Recent conceptual models argue that early life adversity (ELA) accelerates
development, which may contribute to poor mental and physical health outcomes. Evidence …

A new aging measure captures morbidity and mortality risk across diverse subpopulations from NHANES IV: a cohort study

Z Liu, PL Kuo, S Horvath, E Crimmins, L Ferrucci… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background A person's rate of aging has important implications for his/her risk of death and
disease; thus, quantifying aging using observable characteristics has important applications …

Age and immunity: what is “immunosenescence”?

G Pawelec - Experimental gerontology, 2018 - Elsevier
As is apparent from the many contributions to this Special Issue of the Journal, the impact of
age on immunity is nefarious, with all manner of dysregulated responses attributed to …

Brain-age in midlife is associated with accelerated biological aging and cognitive decline in a longitudinal birth cohort

ML Elliott, DW Belsky, AR Knodt, D Ireland… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
An individual's brainAGE is the difference between chronological age and age predicted
from machine-learning models of brain-imaging data. BrainAGE has been proposed as a …

Eleven telomere, epigenetic clock, and biomarker-composite quantifications of biological aging: do they measure the same thing?

DW Belsky, TE Moffitt, AA Cohen… - American journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The geroscience hypothesis posits that therapies to slow biological processes of aging can
prevent disease and extend healthy years of life. To test such “geroprotective” therapies in …

Physical resilience in older adults: systematic review and development of an emerging construct

HE Whitson, W Duan-Porter… - … Series A: Biomedical …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background. Resilience has been described in the psychosocial literature as the capacity to
maintain or regain well-being during or after adversity. Physical resilience is a newer …

A framework for selection of blood-based biomarkers for geroscience-guided clinical trials: report from the TAME Biomarkers Workgroup

JN Justice, L Ferrucci, AB Newman, VR Aroda… - Geroscience, 2018 - Springer
Recent advances indicate that biological aging is a potentially modifiable driver of late-life
function and chronic disease and have led to the development of geroscience-guided …

DNA methylation clocks and their predictive capacity for aging phenotypes and healthspan

T Bergsma, E Rogaeva - Neuroscience insights, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The number of age predictors based on DNA methylation (DNAm) profile is rising due to
their potential in predicting healthspan and application in age-related illnesses, such as …

A toolkit for quantification of biological age from blood chemistry and organ function test data: BioAge

D Kwon, DW Belsky - GeroScience, 2021 - Springer
Methods to quantify biological aging are emerging as new measurement tools for
epidemiology and population science and have been proposed as surrogate measures for …

[HTML][HTML] Stress-induced biological aging: A review and guide for research priorities

LR Polsky, KE Rentscher, JE Carroll - Brain, behavior, and immunity, 2022 - Elsevier
Exposure to chronic adverse conditions, and the resultant activation of the neurobiological
response cascade, has been associated with an increased risk of early onset of age-related …