Three Ways to Measure Biological Age All Predict Heart Disease
This study suggests biological age tests could complement standard cholesterol and blood pressure checks for heart risk.
In over 320,000 UK adults followed for nearly 14 years, accelerated biological aging predicted heart trouble across the board. Depending on which aging clock was used, faster aging raised heart failure risk by 26% to 52% per standard deviation. Adding these biological age scores to standard risk models improved prediction of who would develop heart disease.
Conflict of Interest Disclosure: One author received funding from a Jiangsu Province research program. No other conflicts reported.
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