1  1514 134 DNA METHYLATION AND THE EPIGENETIC CLOCK IN RELATION TO PHYSICAL FRAILTY IN OLDER PEOPLE: THE LOTHIAN BIRTH COHORT 1936. BACKGROUND: THE BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING FRAILTY IN OLDER PEOPLE ARE POORLY UNDERSTOOD. THERE IS SOME EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST THAT DNA METHYLATION PATTERNS MAY BE ALTERED IN FRAIL INDIVIDUALS. METHODS: PARTICIPANTS WERE 791 PEOPLE AGED 70 YEARS FROM THE LOTHIAN BIRTH COHORT 1936. DNA METHYLATION WAS MEASURED IN WHOLE BLOOD. BIOLOGICAL AGE WAS ESTIMATED USING TWO MEASURES OF DNA METHYLATION-BASED AGE ACCELERATION-EXTRINSIC AND INTRINSIC EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION. WE CARRIED OUT AN EPIGENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY OF PHYSICAL FRAILTY, AS DEFINED BY THE FRIED PHENOTYPE. MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION WAS USED TO CALCULATE RELATIVE RISK RATIOS FOR BEING PHYSICALLY FRAIL OR PRE-FRAIL ACCORDING TO EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION. RESULTS: THERE WAS A SINGLE SIGNIFICANT (P = 1.16 X 10-7) ASSOCIATION IN THE EPIGENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY COMPARING FRAIL VERSUS NOT FRAIL. THE SAME CPG WAS NOT SIGNIFICANT WHEN COMPARING PRE-FRAIL VERSUS NOT FRAIL. GREATER EXTRINSIC EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION WAS ASSOCIATED WITH AN INCREASED RISK OF BEING PHYSICALLY FRAIL, BUT NOT OF BEING PRE-FRAIL. FOR A YEAR INCREASE IN EXTRINSIC EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION, AGE- AND SEX-ADJUSTED RELATIVE RISK RATIOS (95% CI) FOR BEING PHYSICALLY FRAIL OR PRE-FRAIL WERE 1.06 (1.02, 1.10) AND 1.02 (1.00, 1.04), RESPECTIVELY. AFTER FURTHER ADJUSTMENT FOR SMOKING AND CHRONIC DISEASE, THE ASSOCIATION WITH PHYSICAL FRAILTY REMAINED SIGNIFICANT. INTRINSIC EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION WAS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH PHYSICAL FRAILTY STATUS. CONCLUSIONS: PEOPLE WHO ARE BIOLOGICALLY OLDER, AS INDEXED BY GREATER EXTRINSIC EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION, ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE PHYSICALLY FRAIL. FUTURE RESEARCH WILL NEED TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION PLAYS A CAUSAL ROLE IN THE ONSET OF PHYSICAL FRAILTY.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
2  5685  44 SHOULD WE INVEST IN BIOLOGICAL AGE PREDICTORS TO TREAT COLORECTAL CANCER IN OLDER ADULTS? COLORECTAL CANCER (CRC) IS A CHRONIC DISEASE OF THE OLD POPULATION WITH SLOW DEVELOPMENT PROGRESSING INTO CLINICAL SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS. BIOLOGICAL AGING IS CHARACTERIZED BY E.G. MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION AND EPIGENETIC ALTERATIONS (E.G. METHYLATION) - MECHANISMS THAT ARE ALSO IMPORTANT IN CANCER DEVELOPMENT. FOR CRC, SPECIFIC TYPES OF TUMORS ARE DISTINGUISHABLE BY THEIR METHYLATION PATTERNS AND SEVERAL DETECTION METHODS USING DIFFERENT EPIGENETIC MARKS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED AS SIGNATURES FOR THE DISEASE. BIOLOGICAL AGE ASSESSED BY DNA METHYLATION PATTERNS FROM BLOOD, I.E. THE EPIGENETIC CLOCK, IS HIGHER IN CRC PATIENTS COMPARED TO CONTROLS, AND MAY BE A TOOL FOR IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUALS AT INCREASED RISK FOR CRC. OTHER TYPES OF BIOMARKERS OF AGING ARE USEFUL TO CALCULATE BIOLOGICAL AGE, SUCH AS METABOLITES, PROTEIN LEVELS, INFLAMMATORY MARKERS AND CLINICAL BIOMARKERS, WHERE COMPOSITE SCORES OF BIOMARKERS HAVE BEEN USED TO ASSESS THE RISK OF CRC AND COLORECTAL ADENOMAS. CLINICAL ASSESSMENTS OF BIOLOGICAL AGING INCLUDES FRAILTY, WHICH IS A GERIATRIC SYNDROME CHARACTERIZED BY INCREASED VULNERABILITY TO ADVERSE OUTCOMES. MORE THAN HALF OF THE CRC PATIENTS ARE ESTIMATED TO BE FRAIL OR PRE-FRAIL, AND THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE AT INCREASED RISK OF POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS, POORER PROGNOSIS, TREATMENT INTOLERANCE AND DEATH. HENCE, CONSIDERING FRAILTY AS PART OF BIOLOGICAL AGE IN CRC PATIENTS MAY HELP IDENTIFYING THOSE AT NEED OF CLOSE MONITORING. IN SUMMARY, FUTURE SCREENING PROGRAMS FOR CRC MAY MAKE USE OF BIOLOGICAL AGE ASSESSMENTS, E.G. BY EPIGENETIC CLOCK OR COMPOSITE SCORES. MONITORING DISEASE RELAPSE AND TREATMENT RESPONSE SHOULD BE ENHANCED IN FRAIL INDIVIDUALS FOR BETTER PROGNOSIS.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
3   640  35 BIOMARKERS OF AGING IN FRAILTY AND AGE-ASSOCIATED DISORDERS: STATE OF THE ART AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVE. ACCORDING TO THE GEROSCIENCE CONCEPT THAT ORGANISMAL AGING AND AGE-ASSOCIATED DISEASES SHARE THE SAME BASIC MOLECULAR MECHANISMS, THE IDENTIFICATION OF BIOMARKERS OF AGE THAT CAN EFFICIENTLY CLASSIFY PEOPLE AS BIOLOGICALLY OLDER (OR YOUNGER) THAN THEIR CHRONOLOGICAL (I.E. CALENDAR) AGE IS BECOMING OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE. THESE PEOPLE WILL BE IN FACT AT HIGHER (OR LOWER) RISK FOR MANY DIFFERENT AGE-ASSOCIATED DISEASES, INCLUDING CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES, NEURODEGENERATION, CANCER, ETC. IN TURN, PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM THESE DISEASES ARE BIOLOGICALLY OLDER THAN HEALTHY AGE-MATCHED INDIVIDUALS. MANY BIOMARKERS THAT CORRELATE WITH AGE HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED SO FAR. THE AIM OF THE PRESENT REVIEW IS TO DISCUSS THE USEFULNESS OF SOME OF THESE BIOMARKERS (ESPECIALLY SOLUBLE, CIRCULATING ONES) IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY FRAIL PATIENTS, POSSIBLY BEFORE THE APPEARANCE OF CLINICAL SYMPTOMS, AS WELL AS PATIENTS AT RISK FOR AGE-ASSOCIATED DISEASES. AN OVERVIEW OF SELECTED BIOMARKERS WILL BE DISCUSSED IN THIS REGARD, IN PARTICULAR WE WILL FOCUS ON BIOMARKERS RELATED TO METABOLIC STRESS RESPONSE, INFLAMMATION, AND CELL DEATH (IN PARTICULAR IN NEURODEGENERATION), ALL PHENOMENA CONNECTED TO INFLAMMAGING (CHRONIC, LOW-GRADE, AGE-ASSOCIATED INFLAMMATION). IN THE SECOND PART OF THE REVIEW, NEXT-GENERATION MARKERS SUCH AS EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES AND THEIR CARGOS, EPIGENETIC MARKERS AND GUT MICROBIOTA COMPOSITION, WILL BE DISCUSSED. SINCE RECENT PROGRESSES IN OMICS TECHNIQUES HAVE ALLOWED AN EXPONENTIAL INCREASE IN THE PRODUCTION OF LABORATORY DATA ALSO IN THE FIELD OF BIOMARKERS OF AGE, MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO EXTRACT BIOLOGICAL MEANING FROM THE HUGE MASS OF AVAILABLE DATA, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) APPROACHES WILL BE DISCUSSED AS AN INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT STRATEGY FOR EXTRACTING KNOWLEDGE FROM RAW DATA AND PROVIDING PRACTITIONERS WITH ACTIONABLE INFORMATION TO TREAT PATIENTS.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
4  1955  50 EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION PREDICTS CANCER, CARDIOVASCULAR, AND ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY IN A GERMAN CASE COHORT. BACKGROUND: PREVIOUS STUDIES HAVE DEVELOPED MODELS PREDICTING METHYLATION AGE FROM DNA METHYLATION IN BLOOD AND OTHER TISSUES (EPIGENETIC CLOCK) AND SUGGESTED THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DNA METHYLATION AND CHRONOLOGICAL AGES AS A MARKER OF HEALTHY AGING. THE GOAL OF THIS STUDY WAS TO CONFIRM AND EXPAND SUCH OBSERVATIONS BY INVESTIGATING WHETHER DIFFERENT CONCEPTS OF THE EPIGENETIC CLOCKS IN A POPULATION-BASED COHORT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH CANCER, CARDIOVASCULAR, AND ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY. RESULTS: DNA METHYLATION AGE WAS ESTIMATED IN A COHORT OF 1863 OLDER PEOPLE, AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AGE PREDICTED BY DNA METHYLATION AND CHRONOLOGICAL AGE (DELTAAGE) WAS CALCULATED. A CASE-COHORT DESIGN AND WEIGHTED PROPORTIONAL COX HAZARD MODELS WERE USED TO ESTIMATE ASSOCIATIONS OF DELTAAGE WITH CANCER, CARDIOVASCULAR, AND ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY. HAZARD RATIOS FOR DELTAAGE (PER 5 YEARS) CALCULATED USING THE EPIGENETIC CLOCK DEVELOPED BY HORVATH WERE 1.23 (95 % CI 1.10-1.38) FOR ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY, 1.22 (95 % CI 1.03-1.45) FOR CANCER MORTALITY, AND 1.19 (95 % CI 0.98-1.43) FOR CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY AFTER ADJUSTMENT FOR BATCH EFFECTS, AGE, SEX, EDUCATIONAL LEVEL, HISTORY OF CHRONIC DISEASES, HYPERTENSION, SMOKING STATUS, BODY MASS INDEX, AND LEUCOCYTE DISTRIBUTION. ASSOCIATIONS WERE SIMILAR BUT WEAKER FOR DELTAAGE CALCULATED USING THE EPIGENETIC CLOCK DEVELOPED BY HANNUM. CONCLUSIONS: THESE RESULTS SHOW THAT AGE ACCELERATION IN TERMS OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AGE PREDICTED BY DNA METHYLATION AND CHRONOLOGICAL AGE IS AN INDEPENDENT PREDICTOR OF ALL-CAUSE AND CAUSE-SPECIFIC MORTALITY AND MAY BE USEFUL AS A GENERAL MARKER OF HEALTHY AGING.	2016	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
5  3563  32 IMPACT OF FRAILTY IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH MODERATE TO SEVERE ASTHMA. FRAILTY ASSESSMENT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS CRITICAL APPROACH IN CHRONIC RESPIRATORY DISEASES WITH SUBSTANTIAL IMPACT IN THE HEALTH STATUS AND FUNCTIONALITY IN LATER LIFE. AGING MODIFIES THE IMMUNE RESPONSE LEADING TO A CHRONIC PRO-INFLAMMATORY STATE AND INCREASED SUSCEPTIBILITY TO AIRWAY INFECTIONS. SINCE EPIGENETIC CHANGES, AIRWAY EPITHELIUM DYSFUNCTION AND INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINE ACTIVITY SEEM TO BE MORE PRONOUNCED IN THE IMMUNOSENESCENCE, ELDERLY ASTHMATICS ARE AT HIGHER RISK OF POOR CLINICAL OUTCOMES. THEREFORE, WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT FRAILTY WOULD BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEGREE OF ASTHMA CONTROL IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH MODERATE TO SEVERE ASTHMA. THE AIMS OF THIS STUDY ARE TO INVESTIGATE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FRAILTY AND ASTHMA CONTROL IN PATIENTS OVER 60 YEARS OLD TO ESTIMATE THE PREVALENCE OF FRAILTY IN THIS STUDY POPULATION. WE PLAN TO CONDUCT A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY WITH AT LEAST 120 PATIENTS ABOVE 60 YEARS OLD WITH DIAGNOSTIC OF MODERATE TO SEVERE ASTHMA ACCORDING TO GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR ASTHMA (GINA) GUIDELINES, TREATED AT A REFERRAL OUTPATIENT CLINIC. WE DEFINED ASTHMA CONTROL BY THE SIX-DOMAIN ASTHMA CONTROL QUESTIONNAIRE (ACQ-6) AND FRAILTY PHENOTYPE IN ACCORDANCE WITH FRIED SCALE AND VISUAL SCALE OF FRAILTY (VS-FRAILTY). WE HOPE TO ANALYZE THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FRAILTY AND ASTHMA AND CONTRIBUTE TO INNOVATIVE THERAPEUTIC PLANS IN GERIATRIC ASTHMA.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
6  1780  38 EDUCATION AND LIFESTYLE FACTORS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH DNA METHYLATION CLOCKS IN OLDER AFRICAN AMERICANS. DNA METHYLATION (DNAM) CLOCKS ARE IMPORTANT BIOMARKERS OF CELLULAR AGING AND ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A VARIETY OF AGE-RELATED CHRONIC DISEASES AND ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY. EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATION AND LIFESTYLE RISK FACTORS FOR AGE-RELATED DISEASES AND MULTIPLE DNAM CLOCKS CAN INCREASE THE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW RISK FACTORS CONTRIBUTE TO AGING AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL. THIS STUDY EXPLORED THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN EDUCATION OR LIFESTYLE RISK FACTORS FOR AGE-RELATED DISEASES AND THE ACCELERATION OF FOUR DNAM CLOCKS, INCLUDING INTRINSIC (IEAA) AND EXTRINSIC EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION (EEAA), PHENOAGE ACCELERATION (PHENOAA), AND GRIMAGE ACCELERATION (GRIMAA) IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN PARTICIPANTS OF THE GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY NETWORK OF ARTERIOPATHY. WE PERFORMED BOTH CROSS-SECTIONAL AND LONGITUDINAL ANALYSES. IN CROSS-SECTIONAL ANALYSES, GENDER, EDUCATION, BMI, SMOKING, AND ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION WERE ALL INDEPENDENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH GRIMAA, WHEREAS ONLY SOME OF THEM WERE ASSOCIATED WITH OTHER CLOCKS. THE EFFECT OF SMOKING AND EDUCATION ON GRIMAA VARIED BY GENDER. LONGITUDINAL ANALYSES SUGGEST THAT AGE AND BMI CONTINUED TO INCREASE GRIMAA, AND THAT AGE AND CURRENT SMOKING CONTINUED TO INCREASE PHENOAA AFTER CONTROLLING DNAM CLOCKS AT BASELINE. IN CONCLUSION, EDUCATION AND COMMON LIFESTYLE RISK FACTORS WERE ASSOCIATED WITH MULTIPLE DNAM CLOCKS. HOWEVER, THE ASSOCIATION WITH EACH RISK FACTOR VARIED BY CLOCK, WHICH SUGGESTS THAT DIFFERENT CLOCKS MAY CAPTURE ADVERSE EFFECTS FROM DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULI.	2019	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
7  5395  43 REDUCED EPIGENETIC AGE IN OLDER ADULTS WITH HIGH SENSE OF PURPOSE IN LIFE. PSYCHOSOCIAL RISK FACTORS HAVE BEEN LINKED WITH ACCELERATED EPIGENETIC AGING, BUT LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT WHETHER PSYCHOSOCIAL RESILIENCE FACTORS (EG, SENSE OF PURPOSE IN LIFE) MIGHT REDUCE EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION. IN THIS STUDY, WE TESTED IF OLDER ADULTS WHO EXPERIENCE HIGH LEVELS OF PURPOSE MIGHT SHOW REDUCED EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION. WE EVALUATED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PURPOSE AND EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION AS MEASURED BY 13 DNA METHYLATION (DNAM) "EPIGENETIC CLOCKS" ASSESSED IN 1 572 OLDER ADULTS FROM THE HEALTH AND RETIREMENT STUDY (MEAN AGE 70 YEARS). WE QUANTIFIED THE TOTAL ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PURPOSE AND DNAM AGE ACCELERATION AS WELL AS THE EXTENT TO WHICH THAT TOTAL ASSOCIATION MIGHT BE ATTRIBUTABLE TO DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS, CHRONIC DISEASE, OTHER PSYCHOSOCIAL VARIABLES (EG, POSITIVE AFFECT), AND HEALTH-RELATED BEHAVIORS (HEAVY DRINKING, SMOKING, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, AND BODY MASS INDEX [BMI]). PURPOSE IN LIFE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCED EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION ACROSS 4 "SECOND-GENERATION" DNAM CLOCKS OPTIMIZED FOR PREDICTING HEALTH AND LONGEVITY (FALSE DISCOVERY RATE [FDR] Q < 0.0001: PHENOAGE, GRIMAGE, ZHANG EPIGENETIC MORTALITY INDEX; FDR Q < 0.05: DUNEDINPOAM). THESE ASSOCIATIONS WERE INDEPENDENT OF DEMOGRAPHIC AND PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS, BUT SUBSTANTIALLY ATTENUATED AFTER ADJUSTING FOR HEALTH-RELATED BEHAVIORS (DRINKING, SMOKING, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, AND BMI). PURPOSE SHOWED NO SIGNIFICANT ASSOCIATION WITH 9 "FIRST-GENERATION" DNAM EPIGENETIC CLOCKS TRAINED ON CHRONOLOGICAL AGE. OLDER ADULTS WITH GREATER PURPOSE IN LIFE SHOW "YOUNGER" DNAM EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION. THESE RESULTS MAY BE DUE IN PART TO ASSOCIATED DIFFERENCES IN HEALTH-RELATED BEHAVIORS. RESULTS SUGGEST NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO REDUCE BIOLOGICAL AGE ACCELERATION BY ENHANCING PURPOSE AND ITS BEHAVIORAL SEQUELAE IN LATE ADULTHOOD.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
8  1957  46 EPIGENETIC AGE PREDICTORS IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING ADULTS WITH HIGH IMPACT KNEE PAIN. GERONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH REVEALS CONSIDERABLE INTERINDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY IN AGING PHENOTYPES, AND EMERGING EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT HIGH IMPACT CHRONIC PAIN MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH VARIOUS ACCELERATED BIOLOGICAL AGING PROCESSES. IN PARTICULAR, EPIGENETIC AGING IS A ROBUST PREDICTOR OF HEALTH-SPAN AND DISABILITY COMPARED TO CHRONOLOGICAL AGE ALONE. THE CURRENT STUDY AIMED TO DETERMINE WHETHER SEVERAL EPIGENETIC AGING BIOMARKERS WERE ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH IMPACT CHRONIC PAIN IN MIDDLE TO OLDER AGE ADULTS (44-78 YEARS OLD). PARTICIPANTS (N = 213) UNDERWENT A BLOOD DRAW, DEMOGRAPHIC, PSYCHOSOCIAL, PAIN AND FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS. WE ESTIMATED FIVE EPIGENETIC CLOCKS AND CALCULATED THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EPIGENETIC AGE AND CHRONOLOGICAL AGE, WHICH HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED TO PREDICT OVERALL MORTALITY RISK, AS WELL AS INCLUDED ADDITIONAL DERIVED VARIABLES OF EPIGENETIC AGE PREVIOUSLY ASSOCIATED WITH PAIN. THERE WERE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES ACROSS PAIN IMPACT GROUPS IN THREE OUT OF THE FIVE EPIGENETIC CLOCKS EXAMINED (DNAMAGE, DNAMPHENOAGE AND DNAMGRIMAGE), INDICATING THAT PAIN-RELATED DISABILITY DURING THE PAST 6 MONTHS WAS ASSOCIATED WITH MARKERS OF EPIGENETIC AGING. ONLY DNAMPHENOAGE AND DNAMGRIMAGE WERE ASSOCIATED WITH HIGHER KNEE PAIN INTENSITY DURING THE PAST 48 H. FINALLY, PAIN CATASTROPHIZING, DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMATOLOGY AND MORE NEUROPATHIC PAIN SYMPTOMS WERE SIGNIFICANTLY ASSOCIATED WITH AN OLDER EPIGENOME IN ONLY ONE OF THE FIVE EPIGENETIC CLOCKS (I.E. DNAMGRIMAGE) AFTER CORRECTING FOR MULTIPLE COMPARISONS (CORRECTED P'S < 0.05). GIVEN THE SCANT LITERATURE IN RELATION TO EPIGENETIC AGING AND THE COMPLEX EXPERIENCE OF PAIN, ADDITIONAL RESEARCH IS NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND WHETHER EPIGENETIC AGING MAY HELP IDENTIFY PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC PAIN AT GREATER RISK OF FUNCTIONAL DECLINE AND POORER HEALTH OUTCOMES.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
9  2734  49 EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DNA METHYLATION AGE MEASURES AND PSYCHONEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS IN WOMEN WITH EARLY-STAGE BREAST CANCER. PURPOSE: THE EPIGENETIC CLOCK HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED AS AN INDICATOR FOR MOLECULAR AGING, BUT FEW STUDIES HAVE EXAMINED POSSIBLE ASSOCIATIONS OF DNA METHYLATION (DNAM) AGE OR AGE ACCELERATION (AA) WITH SYMPTOM BURDEN IN INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE TREATED FOR CANCER. THIS STUDY EXPLORED THE ASSOCIATION OF DNAM AGE OR AA WITH PSYCHONEUROLOGICAL (PN) SYMPTOMS, INCLUDING COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT, FATIGUE, SLEEP DISTURBANCES, PAIN, AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS, IN BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS OVER A 2-YEAR PERIOD. METHODS: WE MEASURED PN SYMPTOMS USING RELIABLE INSTRUMENTS AND DNAM LEVELS BY INFINIUM HUMANMETHYLATION450K BEADCHIP (N = 72). DNAM AGE WAS CALCULATED BY THE HORVATH, GRIM, AND HANNUM-BASED INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC AGE ESTIMATIONS. AA WAS DEFINED BY THE RESIDUAL REGRESSING ESTIMATED EPIGENETIC AGE ON CHRONOLOGICAL AGE. MIXED REGRESSION MODELS WERE FITTED FOR AA AND CHANGES IN AA TO STUDY THE ASSOCIATION OVER TIME. SEPARATE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS AND A MIXED-EFFECTS MODEL WERE FITTED FOR AA AT EACH TIME POINT. RESULTS: HORVATH-AA, GRIM-AA, AND EXTRINSIC EPIGENETIC AA WERE SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGED OVER TIME, WHILE INTRINSIC EPIGENETIC AA DID NOT EXHIBIT ANY TEMPORAL CHANGES. INCREASED AA WAS ASSOCIATED WITH GREATER ANXIETY AND FATIGUE, AS WELL AS WORSE COGNITIVE MEMORY, ADJUSTING FOR RACE, BMI, INCOME, CHEMOTHERAPY, RADIATION THERAPY, AND CHRONOLOGICAL AGE. INCREASED DNAM AGE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH GREATER ANXIETY OVER 2 YEARS. CONCLUSION: OUR FINDINGS SUGGEST DNAM AGE AND AA MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH PN SYMPTOMS OVER THE COURSE OF CANCER TREATMENT AND SURVIVORSHIP. SOME PN SYMPTOMS MAY BE AMENABLE TO PREVENTIVE INTERVENTIONS TARGETED TO EPIGENETIC CLOCKS THAT INFLUENCE AGING-ASSOCIATED PROCESSES.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
10  2777  47 EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT AND ACCELERATED BIOLOGICAL AGING. BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT (ELBW) (<1000 G) SURVIVORS ARE EXPOSED TO ELEVATED LEVELS OF PHYSIOLOGIC STRESS DURING THEIR LIVES AND MAY BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO ACCELERATED AGING. USING THE OLDEST KNOWN LONGITUDINALLY FOLLOWED COHORT OF ELBW SURVIVORS, WE COMPARED BIOLOGICAL AGING IN THIS GROUP USING AN EPIGENETIC CLOCK TO A SAMPLE OF MATCHED NORMAL BIRTH WEIGHT (NBW) (>2500 G) CONTROL PARTICIPANTS. METHODS: BUCCAL CELLS WERE COLLECTED FROM 45 ELBW SURVIVORS AND 49 NBW CONTROL PARTICIPANTS AT 30 TO 35 YEARS OF AGE. EPIGENETIC AGE WAS CALCULATED FROM THE WEIGHTED AVERAGE OF DNA METHYLATION AT 353 CYTOSINE-PHOSPHATE-GUANINE SEQUENCE WITHIN DNA SITES, BY USING THE ILLUMINA INFINIUM HUMAN METHYLATION EPIC 850K BEADCHIP ARRAY. RESULTS: BEFORE AND AFTER STATISTICALLY ADJUSTING FOR NEUROSENSORY IMPAIRMENT AND THE PRESENCE OF CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITIONS, A SIGNIFICANT SEX BY BIRTH WEIGHT GROUP INTERACTION WAS OBSERVED IN THE 353-SITE EPIGENETIC-CLOCK ASSAY (P = .03), WHEREBY ELBW MEN HAD A SIGNIFICANTLY OLDER EPIGENETIC AGE THAN NBW MEN (4.6 YEARS; P = .01). WOMEN BORN AT ELBW WERE NOT FOUND TO BE EPIGENETICALLY OLDER THAN THEIR NBW PEERS. CONCLUSIONS: THE RESULTS OF THIS STUDY SUGGEST THAT PRENATAL EXPOSURES MAY PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN AGING, AND THAT MEN BORN PRETERM MAY EXPERIENCE ACCELERATED AGING RELATIVE TO THEIR PEERS. WE FURTHER HIGHLIGHT THE NEED TO MONITOR AND PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF PRETERM SURVIVORS, WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON HEALTHY AGING ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
11  2485  32 EPIGENETIC-BASED AGE ACCELERATION IN A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF OLDER AMERICANS: ASSOCIATIONS WITH AGING-RELATED MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY. BIOMARKERS DEVELOPED FROM DNA METHYLATION (DNAM) DATA ARE OF GROWING INTEREST AS PREDICTORS OF HEALTH OUTCOMES AND MORTALITY IN OLDER POPULATIONS. HOWEVER, IT IS UNKNOWN HOW EPIGENETIC AGING FITS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF KNOWN SOCIOECONOMIC AND BEHAVIORAL ASSOCIATIONS WITH AGING-RELATED HEALTH OUTCOMES IN A LARGE, POPULATION-BASED, AND DIVERSE SAMPLE. THIS STUDY USES DATA FROM A REPRESENTATIVE, PANEL STUDY OF US OLDER ADULTS TO EXAMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DNAM-BASED AGE ACCELERATION MEASURES IN THE PREDICTION OF CROSS-SECTIONAL AND LONGITUDINAL HEALTH OUTCOMES AND MORTALITY. WE EXAMINE WHETHER RECENT IMPROVEMENTS TO THESE SCORES, USING PRINCIPAL COMPONENT (PC)-BASED MEASURES DESIGNED TO REMOVE SOME OF THE TECHNICAL NOISE AND UNRELIABILITY IN MEASUREMENT, IMPROVE THE PREDICTIVE CAPABILITY OF THESE MEASURES. WE ALSO EXAMINE HOW WELL DNAM-BASED MEASURES PERFORM AGAINST WELL-KNOWN PREDICTORS OF HEALTH OUTCOMES SUCH AS DEMOGRAPHICS, SES, AND HEALTH BEHAVIORS. IN OUR SAMPLE, AGE ACCELERATION CALCULATED USING "SECOND AND THIRD GENERATION CLOCKS," PHENOAGE, GRIMAGE, AND DUNEDINPACE, IS CONSISTENTLY A SIGNIFICANT PREDICTOR OF HEALTH OUTCOMES INCLUDING CROSS-SECTIONAL COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION, FUNCTIONAL LIMITATIONS AND CHRONIC CONDITIONS ASSESSED 2 Y AFTER DNAM MEASUREMENT, AND 4-Y MORTALITY. PC-BASED EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION MEASURES DO NOT SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGE THE RELATIONSHIP OF DNAM-BASED AGE ACCELERATION MEASURES TO HEALTH OUTCOMES OR MORTALITY COMPARED TO EARLIER VERSIONS OF THESE MEASURES. WHILE THE USEFULNESS OF DNAM-BASED AGE ACCELERATION AS A PREDICTOR OF LATER LIFE HEALTH OUTCOMES IS QUITE CLEAR, OTHER FACTORS SUCH AS DEMOGRAPHICS, SES, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HEALTH BEHAVIORS REMAIN EQUALLY, IF NOT MORE ROBUST, PREDICTORS OF LATER LIFE OUTCOMES.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
12  5175  27 PREDICTORS OF BIOLOGICAL AGE: THE IMPLICATIONS FOR WELLNESS AND AGING RESEARCH. AS HEALTHSPAN AND LIFESPAN RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGHS HAVE BECOME MORE COMMONPLACE, THE NEED FOR VALID, PRACTICAL MARKERS OF BIOLOGICAL AGE IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY PARAMOUNT. THE ACCESSIBILITY AND AFFORDABILITY OF BIOLOGICAL AGE PREDICTORS THAT CAN REVEAL INFORMATION ABOUT MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY RISK, AS WELL AS REMAINING YEARS OF LIFE, HAS PROFOUND CLINICAL AND RESEARCH IMPLICATIONS. IN THIS REVIEW, WE EXAMINE 5 GROUPS OF AGING BIOMARKERS CAPABLE OF PROVIDING ACCURATE BIOLOGICAL AGE ESTIMATIONS. THE UNIQUE CAPABILITIES OF THESE BIOMARKERS HAVE FAR REACHING IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TESTING OF BOTH PHARMACEUTICAL AND NON-PHARMACEUTICAL INTERVENTIONS DESIGNED TO SLOW OR REVERSE BIOLOGICAL AGING. ADDITIONALLY, THE ENHANCED VALIDITY AND AVAILABILITY OF THESE TOOLS MAY HAVE INCREASINGLY RELEVANT CLINICAL VALUE. THE AUTHORS OF THIS REVIEW EXPLORE THOSE IMPLICATIONS, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION RESEARCH, AND PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE CURRENT EVIDENCE REGARDING 5 BIOLOGICAL AGE PREDICTOR CATEGORIES: TELOMERE LENGTH, COMPOSITE BIOMARKERS, DNA METHYLATION "EPIGENETIC CLOCKS," TRANSCRIPTIONAL PREDICTORS OF BIOLOGICAL AGE, AND FUNCTIONAL AGE PREDICTORS.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
13  1746  34 EARLY LIFE ADVERSITY, PUBERTAL TIMING, AND EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION IN ADULTHOOD. BACKGROUND: GIVEN ASSOCIATIONS LINKING EARLY LIFE ADVERSITY, PUBERTAL TIMING, AND BIOLOGICAL AGING, WE EXAMINED THE DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF EARLY LIFE TRAUMA ON ADULT BIOLOGICAL AGING (VIA AGE OF MENARCHE). METHODS: PARTICIPANTS WERE PREMENOPAUSAL WOMEN (N = 183). PATH MODELS EVALUATED WHETHER EARLY LIFE TRAUMA PREDICTED EARLY PUBERTAL TIMING AND THEREBY, ADULT EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION (INDEXED VIA FOUR EPIGENETIC CLOCKS: HORVATH DNAM AGE, HANNUM DNAM AGE, DNAM PHENOAGE, AND DNAM GRIMAGE). SECONDARY ANALYSES EXPLORED THE EFFECTS OF TYPE OF TRAUMA (ABUSE AND NEGLECT) AND ADULT CHRONIC STRESS STATUS (CAREGIVER OF CHILD WITH AUTISM AND NON-CAREGIVER). RESULTS: EARLY LIFE TRAUMA AND EARLIER AGE AT MENARCHE INDEPENDENTLY PREDICTED ACCELERATED AGING BASED ON ONE OF THE FOUR EPIGENETIC CLOCKS, DNAM GRIMAGE, THOUGH EARLY LIFE TRAUMA WAS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH AGE OF MENARCHE. CHILDHOOD ABUSE, BUT NOT NEGLECT, PREDICTED FASTER EPIGENETIC AGING; RESULTS DID NOT DIFFER BY CHRONIC STRESS STATUS. CONCLUSIONS: EARLY TRAUMA AND EARLY MENARCHE APPEAR TO EXERT INDEPENDENT EFFECTS ON DNAM GRIMAGE, WHICH HAS BEEN SHOWN TO BE THE STRONGEST EPIGENETIC PREDICTOR OF MORTALITY RISK. THIS STUDY IDENTIFIES A POTENTIAL CORRELATE OR DETERMINANT OF ACCELERATED EPIGENETIC AGING-MENARCHEAL AGE. FUTURE RESEARCH SHOULD ADDRESS THE LIMITATIONS OF THIS STUDY BY USING RACIALLY DIVERSE SAMPLES.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
14   180  38 ACCELERATED EPIGENETIC AGING IN OLDER ADULTS WITH HIV DISEASE: ASSOCIATIONS WITH SEROSTATUS, HIV CLINICAL FACTORS, AND HEALTH LITERACY. THE PREVALENCE OF OLDER PERSONS WITH HIV (PWH) DISEASE HAS INCREASED CONSIDERABLY IN THE LAST 20 YEARS, BUT OUR UNDERSTANDING OF BIOLOGICAL FACTORS OF AGING AND THEIR CLINICAL CORRELATES AMONG PWH REMAINS LIMITED. STUDY PARTICIPANTS WERE 149 PERSONS AGED 50 AND OLDER, INCLUDING 107 PWH AND 42 SERONEGATIVES. ALL PARTICIPANTS COMPLETED A BLOOD DRAW, RESEARCH MEDICAL EVALUATION, STRUCTURED PSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW, NEUROCOGNITIVE ASSESSMENT, QUESTIONNAIRES, AND MEASURES OF HEALTH LITERACY. FOUR EPIGENETIC CLOCKS WERE GENERATED FROM STORED BLOOD SAMPLES USING STANDARDIZED LABORATORY METHODS. IN REGRESSION MODELS ADJUSTING FOR SEX AND SMOKING STATUS, PWH HAD SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER EPIGENETIC AGING ACCELERATION VALUES THAN SERONEGATIVES ON ALL FOUR INDICATORS. WITHIN THE PWH SAMPLE, HIGHER LEVELS OF EPIGENETIC AGING ACCELERATION WERE MODERATELY ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER CURRENT CD4 COUNT, AIDS DIAGNOSES, HIGHER SCORES ON THE VETERANS AGING COHORT STUDY INDEX, AND LOWER TELOMERE VALUES. HIGHER EPIGENETIC AGING ACCELERATION INDICES WERE ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER HEALTH LITERACY AMONG PWH. PWH EXPERIENCE ACCELERATED AGING AS MEASURED BY A SERIES OF EPIGENETIC CLOCKS, WHICH MAY BE LINKED TO IMMUNE COMPROMISE AND RISK OF ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY. HEALTH LITERACY MAY BE A MODIFIABLE TARGET FOR MITIGATING THE RISK OF ACCELERATED AGING AMONG OLDER PWH.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
15  2150  41 EPIGENETIC MEASURES OF AGEING PREDICT THE PREVALENCE AND INCIDENCE OF LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH AND DISEASE BURDEN. BACKGROUND: INDIVIDUALS OF THE SAME CHRONOLOGICAL AGE DISPLAY DIFFERENT RATES OF BIOLOGICAL AGEING. A NUMBER OF MEASURES OF BIOLOGICAL AGE HAVE BEEN PROPOSED WHICH HARNESS AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN DNA METHYLATION PROFILES. THESE MEASURES INCLUDE FIVE 'EPIGENETIC CLOCKS' WHICH PROVIDE AN INDEX OF HOW MUCH AN INDIVIDUAL'S BIOLOGICAL AGE DIFFERS FROM THEIR CHRONOLOGICAL AGE AT THE TIME OF MEASUREMENT. THE FIVE CLOCKS ENCOMPASS METHYLATION-BASED PREDICTORS OF CHRONOLOGICAL AGE (HORVATHAGE, HANNUMAGE), ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY (DNAM PHENOAGE, DNAM GRIMAGE) AND TELOMERE LENGTH (DNAM TELOMERE LENGTH). A SIXTH EPIGENETIC MEASURE OF AGEING DIFFERS FROM THESE CLOCKS IN THAT IT ACTS AS A SPEEDOMETER PROVIDING A SINGLE TIME-POINT MEASUREMENT OF THE PACE OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S BIOLOGICAL AGEING. THIS MEASURE OF AGEING IS TERMED DUNEDINPOAM. IN THIS STUDY, WE TEST THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THESE SIX EPIGENETIC MEASURES OF AGEING AND THE PREVALENCE AND INCIDENCE OF THE LEADING CAUSES OF DISEASE BURDEN AND MORTALITY IN HIGH-INCOME COUNTRIES (N </= 9537, GENERATION SCOTLAND: SCOTTISH FAMILY HEALTH STUDY). RESULTS: DNAM GRIMAGE PREDICTED INCIDENCE OF CLINICALLY DIAGNOSED CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD), TYPE 2 DIABETES AND ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE AFTER 13 YEARS OF FOLLOW-UP (HAZARD RATIOS = 2.22, 1.52 AND 1.41, RESPECTIVELY). DUNEDINPOAM PREDICTED THE INCIDENCE OF COPD AND LUNG CANCER (HAZARD RATIOS = 2.02 AND 1.45, RESPECTIVELY). DNAM PHENOAGE PREDICTED INCIDENCE OF TYPE 2 DIABETES (HAZARD RATIO = 1.54). DNAM TELOMERE LENGTH ASSOCIATED WITH THE INCIDENCE OF ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE (HAZARD RATIO = 0.80). DNAM GRIMAGE ASSOCIATED WITH ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY, THE PREVALENCE OF COPD AND SPIROMETRY MEASURES AT THE STUDY BASELINE. THESE ASSOCIATIONS WERE PRESENT AFTER ADJUSTING FOR POSSIBLE CONFOUNDING RISK FACTORS INCLUDING ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION, BODY MASS INDEX, DEPRIVATION, EDUCATION AND TOBACCO SMOKING AND SURPASSED STRINGENT BONFERRONI-CORRECTED SIGNIFICANCE THRESHOLDS. CONCLUSIONS: OUR DATA SUGGEST THAT EPIGENETIC MEASURES OF AGEING MAY HAVE UTILITY IN CLINICAL SETTINGS TO COMPLEMENT GOLD-STANDARD METHODS FOR DISEASE ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT.	2020	
                                                                                           
16   560  33 BACK TO THE FUTURE: EPIGENETIC CLOCK PLASTICITY TOWARDS HEALTHY AGING. AGING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT RISK FACTOR FOR MAJOR HUMAN LIFESTYLE DISEASES, INCLUDING CANCER, NEUROLOGICAL AND CARDIOMETABOLIC DISORDERS. DUE TO THE COMPLEX INTERPLAY BETWEEN GENETICS, LIFESTYLE AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS, SOME INDIVIDUALS SEEM TO AGE FASTER THAN OTHERS, WHEREAS CENTENARIANS SEEM TO HAVE A SLOWER AGING PROCESS. THEREFORE, A BIOCHEMICAL BIOMARKER REFLECTING THE RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL AGE WOULD BE HELPFUL TO PREDICT AN INDIVIDUAL'S HEALTH STATUS AND AGING DISEASE RISK. ALTHOUGH IT IS ALREADY KNOWN FOR YEARS THAT CUMULATIVE EPIGENETIC CHANGES OCCUR UPON AGING, DNA METHYLATION PATTERNS WERE ONLY RECENTLY USED TO CONSTRUCT AN EPIGENETIC CLOCK PREDICTOR FOR BIOLOGICAL AGE, WHICH IS A MEASURE OF HOW WELL YOUR BODY FUNCTIONS COMPARED TO YOUR CHRONOLOGICAL AGE. MOREOVER, THE EPIGENETIC DNA METHYLATION CLOCK SIGNATURE IS INCREASINGLY APPLIED AS A BIOMARKER TO ESTIMATE AGING DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY AND MORTALITY RISK. FINALLY, THE EPIGENETIC CLOCK SIGNATURE COULD BE USED AS A LIFESTYLE MANAGEMENT TOOL TO MONITOR HEALTHY AGING, TO EVALUATE PREVENTIVE INTERVENTIONS AGAINST CHRONIC AGING DISORDERS AND TO EXTEND HEALTHY LIFESPAN. DISSECTING THE MECHANISM OF THE EPIGENETIC AGING CLOCK WILL YIELD VALUABLE INSIGHTS INTO THE AGING PROCESS AND HOW IT CAN BE MANIPULATED TO IMPROVE HEALTH SPAN.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
17  6188  29 THE IMPACT OF INSOMNIA ON FRAILTY AND THE HALLMARKS OF AGING. THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF LIFE, THERE ARE AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN SLEEP. DESPITE THESE NORMAL CHANGES, THERE IS A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF OLDER ADULTS THAT REPORT SLEEP DISSATISFACTION WITH A HIGH PERVASIVENESS OF CHRONIC INSOMNIA, THE MOST COMMON SLEEP DISORDER WORLDWIDE, WITH ITS PREVALENCE BEING EXPECTED TO CONTINUOUSLY INCREASE DUE TO THE GROWING RATES OF AGING AND OBESITY. THIS CAN HAVE DIFFERENT ADVERSE HEALTH OUTCOMES, ESPECIALLY BY PROMOTING BOTH PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE DECLINE, WHICH ULTIMATELY MAY AGGRAVATE FRAILTY IN OLDER ADULTS. MOREOVER, AGE-RELATED FRAILTY AND SLEEP DYSFUNCTION MAY HAVE A COMMON MECHANISM RELATED TO THE HALLMARKS OF CELLULAR AGING. CELLULAR AGING WAS CATEGORIZED INTO NINE HALLMARKS, SUCH AS DNA DAMAGE, TELOMERE ATTRITION AND EPIGENETIC CHANGES. IN THE CONTEXT OF GERIATRIC AND CHRONIC INSOMNIA RESEARCH, THIS REVIEW AIMS AT DISCUSSING THE CURRENT EVIDENCE FROM BOTH ANIMAL MODELS AND HUMAN COHORTS ADDRESSING THE LINK BETWEEN CHRONIC INSOMNIA, THE HALLMARKS OF AGING AND THEIR IMPACT ON FRAILTY. MOREOVER, THE MOST RECENT RESEARCH ABOUT THE PUTATIVE EFFECT OF INSOMNIA THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES ON HALLMARKS OF AGING WILL BE ALSO HIGHLIGHTED.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
18  5959  29 TELOMERE LENGTH AS A MARKER OF BIOLOGICAL AGE: STATE-OF-THE-ART, OPEN ISSUES, AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES. TELOMERE SHORTENING IS A WELL-KNOWN HALLMARK OF BOTH CELLULAR SENESCENCE AND ORGANISMAL AGING. AN ACCELERATED RATE OF TELOMERE ATTRITION IS ALSO A COMMON FEATURE OF AGE-RELATED DISEASES. THEREFORE, TELOMERE LENGTH (TL) HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED FOR A LONG TIME AS ONE OF THE BEST BIOMARKERS OF AGING. RECENT RESEARCH FINDINGS, HOWEVER, INDICATE THAT TL PER SE CAN ONLY ALLOW A ROUGH ESTIMATE OF AGING RATE AND CAN HARDLY BE REGARDED AS A CLINICALLY IMPORTANT RISK MARKER FOR AGE-RELATED PATHOLOGIES AND MORTALITY. EVIDENCE IS OBTAINED THAT OTHER INDICATORS SUCH AS CERTAIN IMMUNE PARAMETERS, INDICES OF EPIGENETIC AGE, ETC., COULD BE STRONGER PREDICTORS OF THE HEALTH STATUS AND THE RISK OF CHRONIC DISEASE. HOWEVER, DESPITE THESE ISSUES AND LIMITATIONS, TL REMAINS TO BE VERY INFORMATIVE MARKER IN ACCESSING THE BIOLOGICAL AGE WHEN USED ALONG WITH OTHER MARKERS SUCH AS INDICES OF HOMEOSTATIC DYSREGULATION, FRAILTY INDEX, EPIGENETIC CLOCK, ETC. THIS REVIEW ARTICLE IS AIMED AT DESCRIBING THE CURRENT STATE OF THE ART IN THE FIELD AND AT DISCUSSING RECENT RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DIVERGENT VIEWPOINTS REGARDING THE USEFULNESS OF LEUKOCYTE TL FOR ESTIMATING THE HUMAN BIOLOGICAL AGE.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
19   404  41 ANALYSIS OF EPIGENETIC AGE PREDICTORS IN PAIN-RELATED CONDITIONS. CHRONIC PAIN PREVALENCE IS HIGH WORLDWIDE AND INCREASES AT OLDER AGES. SIGNS OF PREMATURE AGING HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH CHRONIC PAIN, BUT FEW STUDIES HAVE INVESTIGATED AGING BIOMARKERS IN PAIN-RELATED CONDITIONS. A SET OF DNA METHYLATION (DNAM)-BASED ESTIMATES OF AGE, CALLED "EPIGENETIC CLOCKS," HAS BEEN PROPOSED AS BIOLOGICAL MEASURES OF AGE-RELATED ADVERSE PROCESSES, MORBIDITY, AND MORTALITY. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO ASSESS IF DIFFERENT PAIN-RELATED PHENOTYPES SHOW ALTERATIONS IN DNAM AGE. IN OUR ANALYSIS, WE CONSIDERED THREE COHORTS FOR WHICH WHOLE-BLOOD DNAM DATA WERE AVAILABLE: HEAT PAIN SENSITIVITY (HPS), INCLUDING 20 MONOZYGOTIC TWIN PAIRS DISCORDANT FOR HEAT PAIN TEMPERATURE THRESHOLD; FIBROMYALGIA (FM), INCLUDING 24 CASES AND 20 CONTROLS; AND HEADACHE, INCLUDING 22 CHRONIC MIGRAINE AND MEDICATION OVERUSE HEADACHE PATIENTS (MOH), 18 EPISODIC MIGRAINEURS (EM), AND 13 HEALTHY SUBJECTS. WE USED THE HORVATH'S EPIGENETIC AGE CALCULATOR TO OBTAIN DNAM-BASED ESTIMATES OF EPIGENETIC AGE, TELOMERE LENGTH, LEVELS OF 7 PROTEINS IN PLASMA, NUMBER OF SMOKED PACKS OF CIGARETTES PER YEAR, AND BLOOD CELL COUNTS. WE DID NOT FIND DIFFERENCES IN EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION, CALCULATED USING FIVE DIFFERENT EPIGENETIC CLOCKS, BETWEEN SUBJECTS DISCORDANT FOR PAIN-RELATED PHENOTYPES. TWINS WITH HIGH HPS HAD INCREASED CD8+ T CELL COUNTS (NOMINAL P = 0.028). HPS THRESHOLDS WERE NEGATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH ESTIMATED LEVELS OF GDF15 (NOMINAL P = 0.008). FM PATIENTS SHOWED DECREASED NAIVE CD4+ T CELL COUNTS COMPARED WITH CONTROLS (NOMINAL P = 0.015). THE SEVERITY OF FM MANIFESTATIONS EXPRESSED THROUGH VARIOUS EVALUATION TESTS WAS ASSOCIATED WITH DECREASED LEVELS OF LEPTIN, SHORTER LENGTH OF TELOMERES, AND REDUCED CD8+ T AND NATURAL KILLER CELL COUNTS (NOMINAL P < 0.05), WHILE THE DURATION OF PAINFUL SYMPTOMS WAS POSITIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH TELOMERE LENGTH (NOMINAL P = 0.034). NO DIFFERENCES IN DNAM-BASED ESTIMATES WERE DETECTED FOR MOH OR EM COMPARED WITH CONTROLS. IN SUMMARY, OUR STUDY SUGGESTS THAT HPS, FM, AND MOH/EM DO NOT SHOW SIGNS OF EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION IN WHOLE BLOOD, WHILE HPS AND FM ARE ASSOCIATED WITH DNAM-BASED ESTIMATES OF IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS, PLASMA PROTEINS, AND TELOMERE LENGTH. FUTURE STUDIES SHOULD EXTEND THESE OBSERVATIONS IN LARGER COHORTS.	2020	

20  4249  55 METHYLATION-BASED BIOLOGICAL AGE AND BREAST CANCER RISK. BACKGROUND: AGE IS ONE OF THE STRONGEST PREDICTORS OF CANCER, CHRONIC DISEASE, AND MORTALITY, BUT BIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO AGING DIFFER AMONG PEOPLE. EPIGENETIC DNA MODIFICATIONS HAVE BEEN USED TO ESTIMATE "BIOLOGICAL AGE," WHICH MAY BE A USEFUL PREDICTOR OF DISEASE RISK. WE TESTED THIS HYPOTHESIS FOR BREAST CANCER. METHODS: USING A CASE-COHORT APPROACH, WE MEASURED BASELINE BLOOD DNA METHYLATION OF 2764 WOMEN ENROLLED IN THE SISTER STUDY, 1566 OF WHOM SUBSEQUENTLY DEVELOPED BREAST CANCER AFTER AN AVERAGE OF 6 YEARS. USING THREE PREVIOUSLY ESTABLISHED METHYLATION-BASED "CLOCKS" (HANNUM, HORVATH, AND LEVINE), WE DEFINED BIOLOGICAL AGE ACCELERATION FOR EACH WOMAN BY COMPARING HER ESTIMATED BIOLOGICAL AGE WITH HER CHRONOLOGICAL AGE. HAZARD RATIOS AND 95% CONFIDENCE INTERVALS FOR BREAST CANCER RISK WERE ESTIMATED USING COX REGRESSION MODELS. ALL STATISTICAL TESTS WERE TWO-SIDED. RESULTS: EACH OF THE THREE CLOCKS SHOWED THAT BIOLOGICAL AGE ACCELERATION WAS STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANTLY ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED RISK OF DEVELOPING BREAST CANCER (5-YEAR AGE ACCELERATION, HANNUM'S CLOCK: HAZARD RATIO [HR] = 1.10, 95% CONFIDENCE INTERVAL [CI] = 1.00 TO 1.21, P = .04; HORVATH'S CLOCK: HR = 1.08, 95% CI = 1.00 TO 1.17, P = .04; LEVINE'S CLOCK: HR = 1.15, 95% CI = 1.07 TO 1.23, P < .001). FOR LEVINE'S CLOCK, EACH 5-YEAR ACCELERATION IN BIOLOGICAL AGE CORRESPONDED WITH A 15% INCREASE IN BREAST CANCER RISK. ALTHOUGH BIOLOGICAL AGE MAY ACCELERATE WITH MENOPAUSAL TRANSITION, AGE ACCELERATION IN PREMENOPAUSAL WOMEN INDEPENDENTLY PREDICTED BREAST CANCER. CASE-ONLY ANALYSIS SUGGESTED THAT, AMONG WOMEN WHO DEVELOP BREAST CANCER, INCREASED AGE ACCELERATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH INVASIVE CANCER (ODDS RATIO FOR INVASIVE = 1.09, 95% CI = 0.98 TO 1.22, P = .10). CONCLUSIONS: DNA METHYLATION-BASED MEASURES OF BIOLOGICAL AGE MAY BE IMPORTANT PREDICTORS OF BREAST CANCER RISK.	2019