Progress in biological age research

Z Li, W Zhang, Y Duan, Y Niu, Y Chen, X Liu… - Frontiers in public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Biological age (BA) is a common model to evaluate the function of aging individuals as it
may provide a more accurate measure of the extent of human aging than chronological age …

DunedinPACE, a DNA methylation biomarker of the pace of aging

DW Belsky, A Caspi, DL Corcoran, K Sugden… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Background: Measures to quantify changes in the pace of biological aging in response to
intervention are needed to evaluate geroprotective interventions for humans. Previously, we …

GrimAge outperforms other epigenetic clocks in the prediction of age-related clinical phenotypes and all-cause mortality

C McCrory, G Fiorito, B Hernandez… - The Journals of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The aging process is characterized by the presence of high interindividual variation between
individuals of the same chronical age prompting a search for biomarkers that capture this …

Accelerated biological aging and risk of depression and anxiety: evidence from 424,299 UK Biobank participants

X Gao, T Geng, M Jiang, N Huang, Y Zheng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Theory predicts that biological processes of aging may contribute to poor mental
health in late life. To test this hypothesis, we evaluated prospective associations between …

Measuring healthy ageing: current and future tools

N Silva, AT Rajado, F Esteves, D Brito, J Apolónio… - Biogerontology, 2023 - Springer
Human ageing is a complex, multifactorial process characterised by physiological damage,
increased risk of age-related diseases and inevitable functional deterioration. As the …

Role of sleep quality in the acceleration of biological aging and its potential for preventive interaction on air pollution insults: Findings from the UK Biobank cohort

X Gao, N Huang, X Guo, T Huang - Aging Cell, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sleep has been associated with aging and relevant health outcomes, but the causal
relationship remains inconclusive. In this study, we investigated the associations of sleep …

Explainable machine learning framework to predict personalized physiological aging

D Bernard, E Doumard, I Ader, P Kemoun, J Pagès… - Aging cell, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Attaining personalized healthy aging requires accurate monitoring of physiological changes
and identifying subclinical markers that predict accelerated or delayed aging. Classic …

Contributing factors to advanced brain aging in depression and anxiety disorders

LKM Han, HG Schnack, RM Brouwer… - Translational …, 2021 - nature.com
Depression and anxiety are common and often comorbid mental health disorders that
represent risk factors for aging-related conditions. Brain aging has shown to be more …

An exposomic framework to uncover environmental drivers of aging

V Kalia, DW Belsky, AA Baccarelli, GW Miller - Exposome, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The exposome, the environmental complement of the genome, is an omics level
characterization of an individual's exposures. There is growing interest in uncovering the …

Short-Term Exposure of PM2.5 and Epigenetic Aging: A Quasi-Experimental Study

X Gao, J Huang, A Cardenas, Y Zhao… - … science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Epigenetic age (EA) is an emerging DNA methylation-based biomarker of biological aging,
but whether EA is causally associated with short-term PM2. 5 exposure remains unknown …