Male Sex, BMI, Smoking, Depression Raise Biological Age
Male Sex, BMI, Smoking, Depression Raise Biological Age by Angela Mohan on February 10, 2021 at 2:30 PM eLife reports. Aging can be measured in different ways. While chronological age is measured by date of birth, scientists have developed a range of measurements to determine our biological age. These include measuring the length of telomeres (little caps on the end of our chromosomes that shorten as we grow older), chemical changes to our DNA (epigenetics), and changes to the proteins and metabolites in our bodies (proteomic and metabolomic measures). Although studies hav...