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 …
Dementia caregiving has been linked to multiple health risks, including infectious illness, depression, anxiety, immune dysregulation, weakened vaccine responses, slow wound …
LL Schmitz, V Duque - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Research on maternal-fetal epigenetic programming argues that adverse exposures to the intrauterine environment can have long-term effects on adult morbidity and mortality …
Background and Objectives DNA methylation algorithms are increasingly used to estimate biological aging; however, how these proposed measures of whole-organism biological …
Background Epigenetic age acceleration (EAA) and epigenetic gestational age acceleration (EGAA) are biomarkers of physiological development and may be affected by the perinatal …
The 2010 special issue of Journal of Health and Social Behavior, titled “Fifty Years of Medical Sociology,” defined the contours of the medical sociological perspective. We use …
Structural racism generates racial inequities in US primary education, including segregated schools, inequitable funding and resources, racial disparities in discipline and achievement …
Objective Short sleep and insomnia are each associated with a greater risk of age-related disease, which suggests that insufficient sleep may accelerate biological aging. We examine …
B Shen, NA Mode, NN Hooten, NL Pacheco… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The Dunedin Pace of Aging Calculated From the Epigenome (DunedinPACE) measure is a newly constructed DNA methylation (DNAm) biomarker associated with …