Biomarkers Show Some People Aging 3 Times As Fast As Others

How fast are you aging? Using people from a long running longitudinal study in Dunedin New Zealand and an assortment of biomarkers scientists find that some people are aging 3 years for every chronological year: Based on a subset of these biomarkers, the research team set a "biological age" for each participant, which ranged from under 30 to nearly 60 in the 38-year-olds. The researchers then went back into the archival data for each subject and looked at 18 biomarkers that were measured when the participants were age 26, and again when they were 32 and 38. From this, they drew a slope for each variable, and then the 18 slopes were added for each study subject to determine that...
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