1  1957 145 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	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
2   103  33 A REHABILOMICS FRAMEWORK FOR PERSONALIZED AND TRANSLATIONAL REHABILITATION RESEARCH AND CARE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES: PERSPECTIVES AND CONSIDERATIONS FOR SPINAL CORD INJURY. DESPITE MANY PEOPLE HAVING SIMILAR CLINICAL PRESENTATION, DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS, AND CLINICAL CARE, OUTCOME CAN DIFFER FOR THOSE SUSTAINING SIGNIFICANT INJURY SUCH AS SPINAL CORD INJURY (SCI) AND TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI). IN ADDITION TO TRADITIONAL DEMOGRAPHIC, SOCIAL, AND CLINICAL FACTORS, VARIABILITY ALSO MAY BE ATTRIBUTABLE TO INNATE (INCLUDING GENETIC, TRANSCRIPTOMIC PROTEOMIC, EPIGENETIC) BIOLOGICAL VARIATION THAT INDIVIDUALS BRING TO RECOVERY AND THEIR UNIQUE RESPONSE TO THEIR CARE AND ENVIRONMENT. TECHNOLOGIES COLLECTIVELY CALLED "-OMICS" ENABLE SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT OF AN ENORMOUS NUMBER OF BIOMOLECULES THAT CAN CAPTURE MANY POTENTIAL BIOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTORS TO HETEROGENEITY OF INJURY/DISEASE COURSE AND OUTCOME. DUE TO THE NATURE OF INJURY AND COMPLEX DISEASE, AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS WITH IMPAIRMENT, DISABILITY, AND RECOVERY, REHABILITATION DOES NOT LEND ITSELF TO A SINGULAR "PROTOCOLIZED" PLAN OF THERAPY. YET, BY NATURE AND BY NECESSITY, REHABILITATION MEDICINE OPERATES AS A FUNCTIONAL MODEL OF "PERSONALIZED CARE". THUS, THE CHALLENGE FOR SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS OF TRANSLATIONAL REHABILITATION CARE AND RESEARCH IS TO IDENTIFY VIABLE APPROACHES TO EXAMINE BROAD POPULATIONS, WITH VARIED IMPAIRMENTS AND FUNCTIONAL LIMITATIONS, AND TO IDENTIFY EFFECTIVE TREATMENT RESPONSES THAT INCORPORATE PERSONALIZED PROTOCOLS TO OPTIMIZE FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY. THE REHABILOMICS FRAMEWORK IS A TRANSLATIONAL MODEL THAT PROVIDES AN "-OMICS" OVERLAY TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF REHABILITATION PROCESSES AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL OUTCOMES. REHABILOMICS RESEARCH PROVIDES NOVEL OPPORTUNITIES TO EVALUATE THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF COMPLEX INJURY OR CHRONIC DISEASE AND CAN BE USED TO EXAMINE METHODS AND TREATMENTS FOR PERSON-CENTERED CARE AMONG POPULATIONS WITH DISABILITIES. EXEMPLARS FOR APPLICATION IN SCI AND OTHER NEUROREHABILITATION POPULATIONS ARE DISCUSSED.	2014	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
3  5028  29 PERSONALIZING PEDIATRIC PAIN MEDICINE: USING POPULATION-SPECIFIC PHARMACOGENETICS, GENOMICS, AND OTHER -OMICS APPROACHES TO PREDICT RESPONSE. PERSONALIZED MEDICINE IS THE SCIENCE OF INDIVIDUALIZED PREVENTION AND THERAPY. THE NOTION THAT "ONE SIZE FITS ALL" HAS BEEN REPLACED BY THE IDEA OF PATIENT-TAILORED HEALTH CARE. WITHIN THIS PARADIGM, THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY HAS TURNED TO EXAMINE GENETIC PREDICTORS OF DISEASE AND TREATMENT RESPONSES. PAIN RESEARCHERS HAVE PRODUCED GENETIC STUDIES OVER THE LAST DECADE THAT EVALUATE THE ASSOCIATION OF GENETIC VARIABILITY WITH PAIN SENSITIVITY AND ANALGESIC RESPONSE. WHILE MOST OF THESE STUDIES HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED AMONG COHORTS OF SUBJECTS OF EUROPEAN DESCENT, SOME HAVE INCLUDED OTHER RACIAL AND ETHNIC GROUPS, PROVIDING EVIDENCE OF VARIABLE RESPONSES TO ANALGESICS. SIMULTANEOUSLY, THERE IS AN INCREASED RECOGNITION REGARDING THE COMPLEXITY OF PAIN RESEARCH, ACKNOWLEDGING THE ADDITIONAL ROLE OF EPIGENETIC, TRANSCRIPTOMIC, PROTEOMIC, AND METABOLOMIC FACTORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT, EXPERIENCE, AND TREATMENT OF PAIN. THIS ARTICLE PROVIDES AN INTRODUCTION TO POPULATION-SPECIFIC PHARMACOGENETICS, PROTEOMICS AND OTHER "-OMICS" TECHNOLOGIES TO PREDICT DRUG RESPONSE TO PAIN MEDICATIONS IN CHILDREN. IT AIMS TO PROVIDE ANESTHESIOLOGISTS WITH THE BASIC KNOWLEDGE TO UNDERSTAND THE POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS OF GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC FACTORS MANAGING THE PAIN OF PEDIATRIC PATIENTS.	2015	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
4  4915  32 PAIN, ANALGESIA AND GENETICS. OBJECTIVES: IN THE CLINICAL SETTING, THERE IS MARKED INTERSUBJECT VARIABILITY IN THE INTENSITY OF PAIN REPORTED BY PATIENTS WITH APPARENTLY SIMILAR PAIN STATES, AS WELL AS WIDELY DIFFERING ANALGESIC DOSING REQUIREMENTS BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS TO PRODUCE SATISFACTORY PAIN RELIEF WITH TOLERABLE SIDE-EFFECTS. GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AS WELL AS THEIR INTERACTION ARE IMPLICATED, AND THESE ARE DISCUSSED IN THIS REVIEW. KEY FINDINGS: PIONEERING WORK UNDERTAKEN IN MICE MORE THAN A DECADE AGO, SHOWED A STRONG GENETIC CONTRIBUTION TO LEVELS OF NOCICEPTION/HYPERSENSITIVITY AS WELL AS LEVELS OF ANTINOCICEPTION PRODUCED BY COMMONLY AVAILABLE ANALGESIC AGENTS. TO DATE MORE THAN 300 CANDIDATE 'PAIN' GENES HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS POTENTIALLY CONTRIBUTING TO HERITABLE DIFFERENCES IN PAIN SENSITIVITY AND ANALGESIC RESPONSIVENESS IN ANIMALS AND HUMANS, WITH THIS INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN A PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE DATABASE HTTP://WWW.JBLDESIGN.COM/JMOGIL/ENTER.HTML. SINCE THEN, MANY GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED IN HUMANS TO INVESTIGATE THE POSSIBILITY THAT SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS (SNPS) IN AN INDIVIDUAL GENE MAY EXPLAIN DRUG INEFFICACY OR EXCESSIVE TOXICITY EXPERIENCED BY A SMALL SUBSET OF THE WHOLE POPULATION WHO HAVE THE RARE ALLELE FOR A PARTICULAR SNP. SUMMARY: DESPITE THE FACT THAT SNPS IN MORE THAN 20 GENES THAT AFFECT PAIN SENSITIVITY OR CONTRIBUTE TO INTERINDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY IN RESPONSES TO ANALGESIC MEDICATIONS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED IN THE HUMAN GENOME, MUCH OF THE DATA IS CONFLICTING. APART FROM DEFICIENCIES IN THE DESIGN AND CONDUCT OF HUMAN GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES, RECENT RESEARCH FROM OTHER FIELDS HAS IMPLICATED EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS THAT FACILITATE DYNAMIC GENE-ENVIRONMENT COMMUNICATION, AS A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION.	2011	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
5  6112  40 THE EPIGENETIC CLOCK AS A PREDICTOR OF DISEASE AND MORTALITY RISK: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS. BACKGROUND: AGEING IS ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL RISK FACTORS FOR MANY CHRONIC DISEASES. HOWEVER, THERE IS CONSIDERABLE BETWEEN-PERSON VARIATION IN THE RATE OF AGEING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN THEIR SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DISEASE AND DEATH. EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS MAY PLAY A ROLE IN HUMAN AGEING, AND DNA METHYLATION AGE BIOMARKERS MAY BE GOOD PREDICTORS OF AGE-RELATED DISEASES AND MORTALITY RISK. THE AIMS OF THIS SYSTEMATIC REVIEW WERE TO IDENTIFY AND SYNTHESISE THE EVIDENCE FOR AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PERIPHERALLY MEASURED DNA METHYLATION AGE AND LONGEVITY, AGE-RELATED DISEASE, AND MORTALITY RISK. METHODS: A SYSTEMATIC SEARCH WAS CONDUCTED IN LINE WITH THE PREFERRED REPORTING ITEMS FOR SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AND META-ANALYSES (PRISMA) GUIDELINES. USING RELEVANT SEARCH TERMS, MEDLINE, EMBASE, COCHRANE CENTRAL REGISTER OF CONTROLLED TRIALS, AND PSYCHINFO DATABASES WERE SEARCHED TO IDENTIFY ARTICLES MEETING THE INCLUSION CRITERIA. STUDIES WERE ASSESSED FOR BIAS USING JOANNA BRIGGS INSTITUTE CRITICAL APPRAISAL CHECKLISTS. DATA WAS EXTRACTED FROM STUDIES MEASURING AGE ACCELERATION AS A PREDICTOR OF AGE-RELATED DISEASES, MORTALITY OR LONGEVITY, AND THE FINDINGS FOR SIMILAR OUTCOMES COMPARED. USING REVIEW MANAGER 5.3 SOFTWARE, TWO META-ANALYSES (ONE PER EPIGENETIC CLOCK) WERE CONDUCTED ON STUDIES MEASURING ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY. RESULTS: TWENTY-THREE RELEVANT ARTICLES WERE IDENTIFIED, INCLUDING A TOTAL OF 41,607 PARTICIPANTS. FOUR STUDIES FOCUSED ON AGEING AND LONGEVITY, 11 ON AGE-RELATED DISEASE (CANCER, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, AND DEMENTIA), AND 11 ON MORTALITY. THERE WAS SOME, ALTHOUGH INCONSISTENT, EVIDENCE FOR AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN INCREASED DNA METHYLATION AGE AND RISK OF DISEASE. META-ANALYSES INDICATED THAT EACH 5-YEAR INCREASE IN DNA METHYLATION AGE WAS ASSOCIATED AN 8 TO 15% INCREASED RISK OF MORTALITY. CONCLUSION: DUE TO THE SMALL NUMBER OF STUDIES AND HETEROGENEITY IN STUDY DESIGN AND OUTCOMES, THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN DNA METHYLATION AGE AND AGE-RELATED DISEASE AND LONGEVITY IS INCONCLUSIVE. INCREASED EPIGENETIC AGE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH MORTALITY RISK, BUT POSITIVE PUBLICATION BIAS NEEDS TO BE CONSIDERED. FURTHER RESEARCH IS NEEDED TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH DNA METHYLATION AGE CAN BE USED AS A CLINICAL BIOMARKER.	2019	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
6  6822  41 [GENDER MEDICINE. SEX- AND GENDER-SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF CLINICAL MEDICINE]. GENDER MEDICINE STUDIES SEX- AND GENDER-BASED DIFFERENCES IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND PREVENTION OF DISEASES, THE AWARENESS AND PRESENTATION OF SYMPTOMS, AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THERAPY. GENDER MEDICINE IS PART OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE, CONSIDERING DIFFERENCES IN BIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS INDIVIDUALLY. THERE ARE DIFFERENCES IN GENES, CHROMOSOMES, HORMONES, AND METABOLISM AS WELL AS DIFFERENCES IN CULTURE, ENVIRONMENT, AND SOCIETY. LIFELONG INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS WILL INFLUENCE THE HEALTH AND ILL-HEALTH OF MEN AND WOMEN IN DIFFERENT WAYS. EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENT AND LIFESTYLE DURING VULNERABLE PHASES ON BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES, EFFECTING FUTURE GENERATIONS. MATERNAL LIFESTYLE AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS DURING PREGNANCY CAN IMPACT THE HEALTH OF OFFSPRING IN LATER LIFE ALREADY IN UTERO IN A SEX-SPECIFIC WAY. PAIN, STRESS, AND COPING STYLES DIFFER BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN. WOMEN EXPERIENCE MORE DRAMATIC PHYSICAL CHANGES DURING THEIR LIFETIME, WHICH ARE ASSOCIATED WITH SPECIFIC BURDENS AND PSYCHOSOCIAL ALTERATIONS. WOMEN WITH MULTIPLE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES SUFFERING FROM STRESS DEVELOP DEPRESSION MORE FREQUENTLY. HOWEVER, MEN ARE OFTEN NOT DIAGNOSED AND TREATED APPROPRIATELY IN CASES OF DEPRESSION OR OSTEOPOROSIS, DISEASES THAT ARE TYPICALLY CONSIDERED "FEMALE." THERE ARE PROMINENT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN IN MEDICINE REGARDING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM, INFLAMMATION, AND NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES SUCH AS OBESITY, TYPE 2 DIABETES, HYPERTENSION, AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. WOMEN EXPERIENCE MORE OFTEN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES AND SUFFER MORE FREQUENTLY FROM (CHRONIC) PAIN, NEURODEGENERATIVE CHANGES, AND FUNCTIONAL DISABILITIES. MEN HAVE SHORTER LIFE EXPECTANCY BUT RELATIVELY MORE HEALTHY YEARS OF LIFE, WHICH IS IN GREATER PART ASCRIBED TO PSYCHOSOCIAL DETERMINANTS. STATE-OF-THE-ART CLINICAL MEDICINE COMPRISES INDIVIDUAL RISK FACTORS BASED ON SEX- AND GENDER-SENSITIVE HEALTH PROGRAMS IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE FOR MEN AND WOMEN.	2014	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
7  5040  29 PHARMACOGENETICS OF PAIN AND ANALGESIA. PAIN SEVERITY RATINGS AND THE ANALGESIC DOSING REQUIREMENTS OF PATIENTS WITH APPARENTLY SIMILAR PAIN CONDITIONS MAY DIFFER CONSIDERABLY BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS INCLUDE THOSE OF GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ORIGIN WITH EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS THAT ENABLE DYNAMIC GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION, MORE RECENTLY IMPLICATED IN PAIN MODULATION. INSIGHT INTO GENETIC FACTORS UNDERPINNING INTER-PATIENT VARIABILITY IN PAIN SENSITIVITY HAS COME FROM RODENT HERITABILITY STUDIES AS WELL AS FAMILIAL AGGREGATION AND TWIN STUDIES IN HUMANS. INDEED, MORE THAN 350 CANDIDATE PAIN GENES HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS POTENTIALLY CONTRIBUTING TO HERITABLE DIFFERENCES IN PAIN SENSITIVITY. A LARGE NUMBER OF GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES CONDUCTED IN PATIENTS WITH A VARIETY OF CLINICAL PAIN TYPES OR IN HUMANS EXPOSED TO EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED PAIN STIMULI IN THE LABORATORY SETTING, HAVE EXAMINED THE IMPACT OF SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS IN VARIOUS TARGET GENES ON PAIN SENSITIVITY AND/OR ANALGESIC DOSING REQUIREMENTS. HOWEVER, THE FINDINGS OF SUCH STUDIES HAVE GENERALLY FAILED TO REPLICATE OR HAVE BEEN ONLY PARTIALLY REPLICATED BY INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATORS. DEFICIENCIES IN STUDY CONDUCT INCLUDING USE OF SMALL SAMPLE SIZE, INAPPROPRIATE STATISTICAL METHODS AND INADEQUATE ATTENTION TO THE POSSIBILITY THAT BETWEEN-STUDY DIFFERENCES IN ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS MAY ALTER PAIN PHENOTYPES THROUGH EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS, HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS BEING SIGNIFICANT.	2012	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
8  5224  36 PRIORITIZED RESEARCH FOR THE PREVENTION, TREATMENT, AND REVERSAL OF CHRONIC DISEASE: RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE LIFESTYLE MEDICINE RESEARCH SUMMIT. DECLINING LIFE EXPECTANCY AND INCREASING ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH UNHEALTHY BEHAVIORS, SOCIOECOLOGICAL FACTORS, AND PREVENTABLE DISEASE. A GROWING BODY OF BASIC SCIENCE, CLINICAL RESEARCH, AND POPULATION HEALTH EVIDENCE POINTS TO THE BENEFITS OF HEALTHY BEHAVIORS, ENVIRONMENTS AND POLICIES TO MAINTAIN HEALTH AND PREVENT, TREAT, AND REVERSE THE ROOT CAUSES OF COMMON CHRONIC DISEASES. SIMILARLY, INNOVATIONS IN RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES, STANDARDS OF EVIDENCE, EMERGENCE OF UNIQUE STUDY COHORTS, AND BREAKTHROUGHS IN DATA ANALYTICS AND MODELING CREATE NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR PRODUCING BIOMEDICAL KNOWLEDGE AND CLINICAL TRANSLATION. TO UNDERSTAND THESE ADVANCES AND INFORM FUTURE DIRECTIONS RESEARCH, THE LIFESTYLE MEDICINE RESEARCH SUMMIT WAS CONVENED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ON DECEMBER 4-5, 2019. THE SUMMIT'S GOAL WAS TO REVIEW CURRENT STATUS AND DEFINE RESEARCH PRIORITIES IN THE SIX CORE AREAS OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE: PLANT-PREDOMINANT NUTRITION, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, SLEEP, STRESS, ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS, AND POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY/SOCIAL CONNECTION. FORTY INVITED SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS (1) REVIEWED EXISTING KNOWLEDGE AND GAPS RELATING LIFESTYLE BEHAVIORS TO COMMON CHRONIC DISEASES, SUCH AS CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, DIABETES, MANY CANCERS, INFLAMMATORY- AND IMMUNE-RELATED DISORDERS AND OTHER CONDITIONS; AND (2) DISCUSSED THE POTENTIAL FOR APPLYING CUTTING-EDGE MOLECULAR, CELLULAR, EPIGENETIC AND EMERGING SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE AND COMPUTATIONAL METHODOLOGIES, RESEARCH DESIGNS, AND STUDY COHORTS TO ACCELERATE CLINICAL APPLICATIONS ACROSS ALL SIX DOMAINS OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE. NOTABLY, FEDERAL HEALTH AGENCIES, SUCH AS THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND VETERANS ADMINISTRATION HAVE BEGUN TO ADOPT "WHOLE-PERSON HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE" MODELS THAT ADDRESS THESE LIFESTYLE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ROOT CAUSES OF CHRONIC DISEASE AND ASSOCIATED MORBIDITY, MORTALITY, AND COST. RECOMMENDATIONS STRONGLY SUPPORT LEVERAGING EMERGING RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES, SYSTEMS BIOLOGY, AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELING IN ORDER TO ACCELERATE EFFECTIVE CLINICAL AND POPULATION SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE HEALTH AND REDUCE SOCIETAL COSTS. NEW AND ALTERNATIVE HIERARCHIES OF EVIDENCE ARE ALSO BE NEEDED IN ORDER TO ASSESS THE QUALITY OF EVIDENCE AND DEVELOP EVIDENCE-BASED GUIDELINES ON LIFESTYLE MEDICINE. CHILDREN AND UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS WERE IDENTIFIED AS PRIORITIZED GROUPS TO STUDY. THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, WHICH DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACTS PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC DISEASES THAT ARE AMENABLE TO EFFECTIVE LIFESTYLE MEDICINE INTERVENTIONS, MAKES THE SUMMIT'S FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH PARTICULARLY TIMELY AND RELEVANT.	2020	

9  2485  37 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	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
10  5175  34 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	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
11  2047  31 EPIGENETIC CLOCKS MAY COME OUT OF RHYTHM-IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ESTIMATION OF CHRONOLOGICAL AGE IN FORENSIC CASEWORK. THERE IS A GROWING PERCEPTION THAT DNA METHYLATION MAY BE INFLUENCED BY EXOGENOUS AND ENDOGENOUS PARAMETERS. KNOWLEDGE OF THESE FACTORS IS OF GREAT RELEVANCE FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF DNA-METHYLATION DATA FOR THE ESTIMATION OF CHRONOLOGICAL AGE IN FORENSIC CASEWORK. WE PERFORMED A LITERATURE REVIEW TO IDENTIFY PARAMETERS, WHICH MIGHT BE OF RELEVANCE FOR THE PREDICTION OF CHRONOLOGICAL AGE BASED ON DNA METHYLATION. THE QUALITY OF AGE PREDICTIONS MIGHT PARTICULARLY BE INFLUENCED BY LIFETIME ADVERSITIES (CHRONIC STRESS, TRAUMA/POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD), VIOLENCE, LOW SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS/EDUCATION), CANCER, OBESITY AND RELATED DISEASES, INFECTIOUS DISEASES (ESPECIALLY HIV AND CYTOMEGALOVIRUS (CMV) INFECTIONS), SEX, ETHNICITY AND EXPOSURE TO TOXINS (ALCOHOL, SMOKING, AIR POLLUTION, PESTICIDES). SUCH FACTORS MAY ALTER THE DNA METHYLATION PATTERN AND MAY EXPLAIN THE PARTLY HIGH DEVIATIONS BETWEEN EPIGENETIC AGE AND CHRONOLOGICAL AGE IN SINGLE CASES (DESPITE OF LOW MEAN ABSOLUTE DEVIATIONS) THAT CAN ALSO BE OBSERVED WITH "EPIGENETIC CLOCKS" COMPRISING A HIGH NUMBER OF CPG SITES. SO FAR, ONLY FEW PUBLICATIONS DEALING WITH FORENSIC AGE ESTIMATION ADDRESS THESE CONFOUNDING FACTORS. FUTURE RESEARCH SHOULD FOCUS ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF FURTHER RELEVANT CONFOUNDING FACTORS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODELS THAT ARE "ROBUST" AGAINST THE INFLUENCE OF SUCH BIOLOGICAL FACTORS BY SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS UNDER TARGETED INCLUSION OF DIVERSE AND DEFINED COHORTS.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
12   734  32 CANCER HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES. A NEED EXISTS TO EXAMINE RACIAL DISPARITIES IN THE HEALTHCARE ARENA AND THE IMPACT ON PATIENTS WITH CANCER. DESPITE ONGOING EFFORTS TO INCREASE EQUITY IN PRIMARY HEALTHCARE ACCESS, RACIAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC DISPARITIES PERSIST, THUS CONTRIBUTING TO DISPROPORTIONATE TREATMENT OUTCOMES AND SURVIVORSHIP AMONG MINORITY AND LOW-INCOME PATIENTS. SUCH DISPARITIES HAVE BEEN REVEALED IN TREATMENT COHORTS OF PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE FORMS OF CANCER, INCLUDING BREAST, CERVICAL, OVARIAN, ENDOMETRIAL, PROSTATE, LUNG, COLORECTAL, GASTROINTESTINAL, AND HEPATOCELLULAR, AND HAVE BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO A RANGE OF CO-OCCURRING BEHAVIORAL, SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH, UNDERLYING GENETIC FACTORS, AS WELL AS ACCESS TO EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES THAT LIMIT THE QUALITY OF INFORMED HEALTHCARE. THESE VARIOUS INTERRELATED FACTORS WIDEN CANCER HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES SYNERGISTICALLY THROUGHOUT UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES, AND THEIR INFLUENCE HAS BEEN AMPLIFIED BY THE CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 (COVID-19) PANDEMIC. FUNDAMENTALLY, A LACK OF BASIC AND CLINICAL RESEARCH EXISTS THAT FAILS TO ADEQUATELY REFLECT DIVERSITY AND MINORITY INVOLVEMENT IN DRUG DEVELOPMENT. ALTHOUGH OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLES RESPONSIBLE FOR CHRONIC TREATMENT DISPARITIES IS A FORMIDABLE TASK, PROMISING MEANS OF ACHIEVING MORE UNIFORM QUALITY HEALTHCARE ARE BECOMING MORE CLEARLY ELUCIDATED. TO REDUCE DISEASE PROGRESSION, INCREASE OVERALL SURVIVAL, AND IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, IT IS NECESSARY TO IDENTIFY AND FULLY DISCLOSE ENVIRONMENTAL, BIOLOGICAL, AND ANCESTRAL FACTORS THAT IMPACT THE RISK FOR CANCER; HEAL HISTORICAL FRACTURES WITHIN COMMUNITIES; AND INCREASE PARTICIPATION OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES IN SCREENING EFFORTS AND RESEARCH STUDIES. THIS REQUIRES DEVELOPING A SYSTEM OF JUSTICE AND TRUST BASED ON SPECIFIC, SOLUTION-ORIENTED GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY EFFORTS WORKING IN TANDEM WITH MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL LEADERS. BY FULLY EXPLORING AND PINPOINTING THE UNDERLYING CAUSES OF HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES, IT SHOULD BE POSSIBLE TO DEFINE STRATEGIES AND INTERVENTIONS MOST LIKELY TO TRANSFORM CANCER CARE. THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS UNDERSTANDING INDIVIDUAL, CULTURAL, AND BIOLOGICAL VULNERABILITIES, INCLUDING ENVIRONMENTAL AND EPIGENETIC LIABILITIES, TO OPTIMIZE CANCER PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
13  5395  49 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	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
14  4515  27 MULTI-OMICS APPROACHES FOR PRECISION OBESITY MANAGEMENT : POTENTIALS AND LIMITATIONS OF OMICS IN PRECISION PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND RISK REDUCTION OF OBESITY. INTRODUCTION: OBESITY IS A MULTIFACTORIAL CHRONIC DISEASE THAT CANNOT BE ADDRESSED BY SIMPLY PROMOTING BETTER DIETS AND MORE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. TO DATE, NOT A SINGLE COUNTRY HAS SUCCESSFULLY BEEN ABLE TO CURB THE ACCUMULATING BURDEN OF OBESITY. ONE EXPLANATION FOR THE LACK OF PROGRESS IS THAT LIFESTYLE INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ARE TRADITIONALLY IMPLEMENTED WITHOUT A COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S DIAGNOSTIC BIOMARKERS. EVIDENCE FROM GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES HIGHLIGHT THE IMPORTANCE OF GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC FACTORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF OBESITY AND HOW THEY IN TURN AFFECT THE TRANSCRIPTOME, METABOLITES, MICROBIOMES, AND PROTEOMES. OBJECTIVE: THE PURPOSE OF THIS REVIEW IS TO PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF OMICS DATA: GENOMICS, EPIGENOMICS, TRANSCRIPTOMICS, PROTEOMICS, METABOLOMICS AND ILLUSTRATE HOW A MULTI-OMICS APPROACH CAN BE FUNDAMENTAL FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PRECISION OBESITY MANAGEMENT. RESULTS: THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF OMICS DESIGNS ARE GROUPED INTO TWO CATEGORIES, THE GENOTYPE APPROACH AND THE PHENOTYPE APPROACH. WHEN APPLIED TO OBESITY PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT, EACH OMICS TYPE COULD POTENTIALLY HELP TO DETECT SPECIFIC BIOMARKERS IN PEOPLE WITH RISK PROFILES AND GUIDE HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS AND DECISION MAKERS IN DEVELOPING INDIVIDUALIZED TREATMENT PLANS ACCORDING TO THE NEEDS OF THE INDIVIDUAL BEFORE THE ONSET OF OBESITY. CONCLUSION: INTEGRATING MULTI-OMICS APPROACHES WILL ENABLE A PARADIGM SHIFT FROM THE ONE SIZE FITS ALL APPROACH TOWARDS PRECISION OBESITY MANAGEMENT, I.E. (1) PRECISION PREVENTION OF THE ONSET OF OBESITY, (2) PRECISION MEDICINE AND TAILORED TREATMENT OF OBESITY, AND (3) PRECISION RISK REDUCTION AND PREVENTION OF SECONDARY DISEASES RELATED TO OBESITY.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
15  1960  41 EPIGENETIC AGING IN CHILDREN FROM A SMALL-SCALE FARMING SOCIETY IN THE CONGO BASIN: ASSOCIATIONS WITH CHILD GROWTH AND FAMILY CONFLICT. DEVELOPMENTAL ENVIRONMENTS INFLUENCE INDIVIDUALS' LONG-TERM HEALTH TRAJECTORIES, AND THERE IS INCREASING EMPHASIS ON UNDERSTANDING THE BIOLOGICAL PATHWAYS THROUGH WHICH THIS OCCURS. EPIGENETIC AGING EVALUATES DNA METHYLATION AT A SUITE OF DISTINCT CPG SITES IN THE GENOME, AND EPIGENETIC AGE ACCELERATION (EAA) IS LINKED TO HEIGHTENED CHRONIC MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY RISKS IN ADULTS. CONSEQUENTLY, EAA PROVIDES INSIGHTS ON TRAJECTORIES OF BIOLOGICAL AGING, WHICH EARLY LIFE EXPERIENCES MAY HELP SHAPE. HOWEVER, FEW STUDIES HAVE MEASURED CORRELATES OF CHILDREN'S EPIGENETIC AGING, ESPECIALLY OUTSIDE OF THE U.S. AND EUROPE. IN PARTICULAR, LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT HOW CHILDREN'S GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT RELATE TO EAA IN ECOLOGIES IN WHICH ENERGETIC AND PATHOGENIC STRESSORS ARE COMMONPLACE. WE STUDIED EAA FROM DRIED BLOOD SPOTS AMONG BONDONGO CHILDREN (N = 54) RESIDING IN A SMALL-SCALE, FISHER-FARMER SOCIETY IN A REMOTE REGION OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. HERE, INFECTIOUS DISEASE BURDENS AND THEIR RESULTANT ENERGY DEMANDS ARE HIGH. CHILDREN WHO WERE HEAVIER FOR HEIGHT OR TALLER FOR AGE, RESPECTIVELY, EXHIBITED GREATER EAA, INCLUDING INTRINSIC EAA, WHICH IS CONSIDERED TO MEASURE EAA INTERNAL TO CELLS. FURTHERMORE, WE FOUND THAT CHILDREN IN FAMILIES WITH MORE CONFLICT BETWEEN PARENTS HAD GREATER INTRINSIC EAA. THESE RESULTS SUGGEST THAT IN CONTEXTS IN WHICH LIMITED ENERGY MUST BE ALLOCATED TO COMPETING DEMANDS, MORE INVESTMENT IN GROWTH MAY COINCIDE WITH GREATER EAA, WHICH PARALLELS FINDINGS IN EUROPEAN CHILDREN WHO DO NOT FACE SIMILAR ENERGETIC CONSTRAINTS. OUR FINDINGS ALSO INDICATE THAT ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN ADVERSE FAMILY ENVIRONMENTS AND GREATER INTRINSIC EAA WERE NONETHELESS OBSERVABLE BUT ONLY AFTER ADJUSTMENT FOR COVARIATES RELEVANT TO THE ENERGETICALLY AND IMMUNOLOGICALLY DEMANDING NATURE OF THE LOCAL ECOLOGY.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
16   675  35 BRAIN AGE AND OTHER BODILY 'AGES': IMPLICATIONS FOR NEUROPSYCHIATRY. AS OUR BRAINS AGE, WE TEND TO EXPERIENCE COGNITIVE DECLINE AND ARE AT GREATER RISK OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE AND DEMENTIA. SYMPTOMS OF CHRONIC NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISEASES ARE ALSO EXACERBATED DURING AGEING. HOWEVER, THE AGEING PROCESS DOES NOT AFFECT PEOPLE UNIFORMLY; NOR, IN FACT, DOES THE AGEING PROCESS APPEAR TO BE UNIFORM EVEN WITHIN AN INDIVIDUAL. HERE, WE OUTLINE RECENT NEUROIMAGING RESEARCH INTO BRAIN AGEING AND THE USE OF OTHER BODILY AGEING BIOMARKERS, INCLUDING TELOMERE LENGTH, THE EPIGENETIC CLOCK, AND GRIP STRENGTH. SOME OF THESE TECHNIQUES, USING STATISTICAL APPROACHES, HAVE THE ABILITY TO PREDICT CHRONOLOGICAL AGE IN HEALTHY PEOPLE. MOREOVER, THEY ARE NOW BEING APPLIED TO NEUROLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC DISEASE GROUPS TO PROVIDE INSIGHTS INTO HOW THESE DISEASES INTERACT WITH THE AGEING PROCESS AND TO DELIVER INDIVIDUALISED PREDICTIONS ABOUT FUTURE BRAIN AND BODY HEALTH. WE DISCUSS THE IMPORTANCE OF INTEGRATING DIFFERENT TYPES OF BIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS, FROM BOTH THE BRAIN AND THE REST OF THE BODY, TO BUILD MORE COMPREHENSIVE MODELS OF THE BIOLOGICAL AGEING PROCESS. FINALLY, WE PROPOSE SEVEN STEPS FOR THE FIELD OF BRAIN-AGEING RESEARCH TO TAKE IN COMING YEARS. THIS WILL HELP US REACH THE LONG-TERM GOAL OF DEVELOPING CLINICALLY APPLICABLE STATISTICAL MODELS OF BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES TO MEASURE, TRACK AND PREDICT BRAIN AND BODY HEALTH IN AGEING AND DISEASE.	2019	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
17  2900  30 GENDER BIAS IN THERAPEUTIC EFFORT: FROM RESEARCH TO HEALTH CARE. THERE ARE RELEVANT DIMENSIONS FROM A GENDER PERSPECTIVE RELATED TO THERAPEUTIC EFFORT. TO ILLUSTRATE AND DISCUSS POSSIBLE GENDER BIAS RELATED TO MEDICINES, THROUGH THE CONSUMPTION ANALYSIS IN WOMEN, THE PRESCRIPTION OF BIOLOGICAL DRUGS ACCORDING TO SEX, THE POTENTIAL GENDER INEQUALITY IN ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS, AND RESEARCH WITH CLINICAL TRIALS, AS WELL AS THE DECISIONS OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE MARKETING OF MEDICINAL PRODUCTS. THERE IS GREATER TENDENCY TO PRESCRIBE PAIN RELIEVERS, REGARDLESS OF PAIN, AND DRUGS FOR LOW INTENSITY DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN WOMEN THAN IN MEN. THE OPPOSITE OCCURS IN THE PRESCRIPTION OF STATINS AND ADEQUATE DOSES, AND WITH THE GREATER PROBABILITY OF PRESCRIBING ANTI-TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR IN MEN THAN IN WOMEN WITH ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS, DESPITE A SIMILAR DISEASE BURDEN. ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS ARE OBSERVED MORE FREQUENTLY IN WOMEN THAN IN MEN, WHERE DETERMINANTS SUCH AS BODY WEIGHT ARE HAVING LITTLE INFLUENCE ON THE DOSAGE. IT IS CURRENTLY SCARCELY CONSIDERED IN THE PRESCRIPTION THAT WOMEN HAVE DIFFERENCES IN THE ACTIVITY OF CYTOCHROME CYPP450 ENZYMES, WHICH CAN AFFECT THE LIVER'S METABOLISM RATE. THERE ARE EVEN IMMUNOLOGICAL, GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC EFFECTS (DUE TO HEREDITY AND UNEVEN GENE DOSING LOCATED IN THE X AND Y CHROMOSOMES) THAT CAN INFLUENCE THESE DIFFERENCES BY SEX. FINALLY, THROUGH CASES OF HORMONAL THERAPY CLINICAL TRIALS, A DRUG FOR WOMEN'S INHIBITED SEXUAL DESIRE AND A CONTRACEPTIVE FOR MEN, GENDER BIAS AND STEREOTYPES ARE SHOWN TO INFLUENCE A POTENTIAL GENERATION OF INEQUALITIES, ESPECIALLY IN ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS TO THE DETRIMENT OF WOMEN. IN CONCLUSION, HEALTH PROFESSIONALS FREQUENTLY ATTRIBUTE PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS TO WOMEN'S EMOTIONALITY, INFLUENCING THEIR GREATER PRESCRIPTION OF SYMPTOMATIC DRUGS. WHETHER THE SAME REASON INFLUENCES THE LOWER PRESCRIPTION OF THERAPEUTIC DRUGS IN WOMEN THAN IN MEN SHOULD BE ANALYZED. THERE ARE BIOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS TO CONSIDER DUE TO THEIR INFLUENCE ON A GREATER PHARMACOLOGICAL TOXICITY IN WOMEN. CLINICAL TRIALS SHOULD IMPROVE ACCORDING TO THE GENDER RECOMMENDATIONS BY THE FOOD AND DRUGS ADMINISTRATION.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
18   119  40 A SYSTEMATIC EXAMINATION OF BRAIN VOLUMETRIC ABNORMALITIES IN RECENT-ONSET SCHIZOPHRENIA USING VOXEL-BASED, SURFACE-BASED AND REGION-OF-INTEREST-BASED MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSES. BACKGROUND: BRAIN MORPHOMETRIC ABNORMALITIES IN SCHIZOPHRENIA HAVE BEEN EXTENSIVELY REPORTED IN THE LITERATURE. WHOLE-BRAIN VOLUMETRIC REDUCTIONS ARE ALMOST UNIVERSALLY REPORTED BY MOST STUDIES IRRESPECTIVE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SAMPLES STUDIED (E.G., CHRONIC/RECENT-ONSET; MEDICATED/NEUROLEPTIC-NAIVE ETC.). HOWEVER, THE SAME CANNOT BE SAID OF THE REPORTED REGIONAL MORPHOMETRIC ABNORMALITIES IN SCHIZOPHRENIA. WHILE CERTAIN REGIONAL MORPHOMETRIC ABNORMALITIES ARE MORE FREQUENTLY REPORTED THAN OTHERS, THERE ARE NO SUCH ABNORMALITIES THAT ARE UNIVERSALLY REPORTED ACROSS STUDIES. VARIABILITY OF SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS ACROSS STUDY SAMPLES AS WELL AS TECHNICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES RELATED TO ACQUISITION AND ANALYSES OF BRAIN STRUCTURAL IMAGES MAY CONTRIBUTE TO INCONSISTENCY OF BRAIN MORPHOMETRIC FINDINGS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PRESENT STUDY THEREFORE WAS TO SYSTEMATICALLY EXAMINE BRAIN MORPHOMETRY IN PATIENTS WITH RECENT-ONSET SCHIZOPHRENIA TO FIND OUT IF THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT WHOLE-BRAIN OR REGIONAL VOLUMETRIC DIFFERENCES DETECTABLE AT THE APPROPRIATE SIGNIFICANCE THRESHOLD, AFTER ATTEMPTING TO CONTROL FOR VARIOUS CONFOUNDING FACTORS THAT COULD IMPACT BRAIN VOLUMES. METHODS: STRUCTURAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES OF 90 SUBJECTS (SCHIZOPHRENIA = 45; HEALTHY SUBJECTS = 45) WERE ACQUIRED USING A 3 TESLA MAGNET. MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSES WERE CARRIED OUT FOLLOWING STANDARD ANALYSES PIPELINES OF THREE MOST COMMONLY USED STRATEGIES, VIZ., WHOLE-BRAIN VOXEL-BASED MORPHOMETRY, WHOLE-BRAIN SURFACE-BASED MORPHOMETRY, AND BETWEEN-GROUP COMPARISONS OF REGIONAL VOLUMES GENERATED BY AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION AND PARCELLATION. RESULTS: IN OUR SAMPLE OF PATIENTS HAVING RECENT-ONSET SCHIZOPHRENIA WITH LIMITED NEUROLEPTIC EXPOSURE, THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT WHOLE BRAIN OR REGIONAL BRAIN MORPHOMETRIC ABNORMALITIES NOTED AT THE APPROPRIATE STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE THRESHOLDS WITH OR WITHOUT INCLUDING AGE, GENDER AND INTRACRANIAL VOLUME OR TOTAL BRAIN VOLUME IN THE STATISTICAL ANALYSES. CONCLUSIONS: IN THE BACKGROUND OF THE CONFLICTING FINDINGS IN THE LITERATURE, OUR FINDINGS INDICATE THAT BRAIN MORPHOMETRIC ABNORMALITIES MAY NOT BE DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE SCHIZOPHRENIA PHENOTYPE. ANALYSIS OF THE REASONS FOR THE INCONSISTENT RESULTS ACROSS STUDIES AS WELL AS CONSIDERATION OF ALTERNATE SOURCES OF VARIABILITY OF BRAIN MORPHOLOGY IN SCHIZOPHRENIA SUCH AS EPISTATIC AND EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS COULD PERHAPS ADVANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF STRUCTURAL BRAIN ALTERATIONS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA.	2015	
                                                                                 
19  5655  30 SEX-BASED MEDICINE MEETS PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS: LESSONS LEARNED AND TO LEARN. HUMORALLY ASSOCIATED AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES GENERALLY SHOW A FEMALE PREDOMINANCE WHEREAS ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS, A DISEASE THAT OVERLAPS WITH PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS (PSA), SHOWS A MALE PREDOMINANCE. THE PRESENT REVIEW ASCERTAINS THE CURRENT KNOWLEDGE OF SEX-SPECIFIC DIFFERENCES RELATED TO PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS (PSA), A CHRONIC, INFLAMMATORY CONDITION ASSOCIATED WITH PSORIASIS. SEX DIFFERENCES MAY HAVE IMPORTANT IMPLICATIONS FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH IN PSA AND IN TERMS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY (INCIDENCE, PREVALENCE, LIFETIME RISK, SURVIVAL, AND MORTALITY), CLINICAL, RADIOLOGICAL, AND LABORATORY FEATURES, AND RESPONSE TO TREATMENT. WHILE NATIONWIDE SURVEYS AND LARGE-SCALE DATABASES AND REGISTRIES SHOW NO SEX-SPECIFIC DIFFERENCES, VARYING MALE/FEMALE RATIOS HAVE BEEN REPORTED, RANGING FROM 0.42 TO 2.75 (COMPARABLE WITH THOSE REPORTED FOR PSORIASIS VULGARIS: RANGING FROM 0.28 TO 2.38). THIS MAY REFLECT SUBTLE, COMPLEX, NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE BIOLOGICAL MAKE-UP OF THE INDIVIDUAL (GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC DIFFERENCES), HORMONAL COMPONENTS INCLUDING MENOPAUSAL STATUS, ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES INCLUDING SKELETAL PHYSICAL STRESSING, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES. THERE EXISTS METHODOLOGICAL HETEROGENEITY AND PAUCITY OF DATA CONCERNING SEX-SPECIFIC DIFFERENCES, IN TERMS OF THE SPECIFIC POPULATION STUDIED, STUDY DESIGN, AND THE DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA UTILIZED. HARMONIZING AND RECONCILING THESE DISCREPANCIES WOULD BE OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE IN ACHIEVING THE AMBITIOUS GOALS OF PERSONALIZED/INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE AND FURTHER STANDARDIZED META-DATA AND BIG DATA COULD HELP DISENTANGLE AND ELUCIDATE THE PRECISE MECHANISMS OF UNDERLYING POTENTIAL PSA SEX-SPECIFIC DIFFERENCES.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
20  3035  25 GENETICS/GENOMICS IN CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE--TOWARDS PERSONALIZED MEDICINE? THE PROGRESSION RATE OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE (CKD) TO ITS TERMINAL STAGE, END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE (ESRD), AND THE DEVELOPMENT AND SEVERITY OF VARIOUS COMPLICATIONS, ARE AT LEAST INDIRECTLY INFLUENCED BY GENETIC--AND EPIGENETIC--FACTORS. FOR YEARS, SCIENTISTS HAVE HELD OUT HOPE THAT THE RAPIDLY EVOLVING FIELD OF GENETICS COULD TRANSFORM MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT, MOVING BEYOND A TRIAL-AND-ERROR APPROACH TOWARDS "PERSONALIZED MEDICINE." INDEED, THERE ARE NOW SIGNS THAT THE ROLE OF GENETICS AND THE PURSUIT OF "PERSONALIZED MEDICINE" IN MEDICAL CARE WILL BE A PRIORITY FOR GOVERNMENTS DURING YEARS TO COME. BUT THE VISION OF INDIVIDUALIZED TREATMENT BASED ON A PATIENT'S GENETIC MAKEUP AND OTHER BIOLOGICAL MARKERS HAS YET TO MATERIALIZE IN THE FIELD OF CKD AND ESRD. AS THE TOXIC UREMIC ENVIRONMENT MAY RENDER CKD PATIENTS MORE SENSITIVE TO THE EFFECTS OF GENETIC VARIANTS, IT IS LIKELY THAT GENETIC FACTORS COULD BE OF SPECIAL IMPORTANCE IN THIS HIGH-RISK POPULATION. THEREFORE, OUTCOME IN THE CKD POPULATION MAY BE IMPROVED BY ESTABLISHING INDIVIDUAL GENETIC/EPIGENETIC PROFILES, THUS ENABLING PHYSICIANS TO DESIGN AN INDIVIDUALIZED THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY. PERSONALIZED MEDICINE BASED ON A MORE INDIVIDUALIZED THERAPY COULD BE APPLIED IN, FOR EXAMPLE, PHARMACOTHERAPY (CYP GENES), DIALYSIS THERAPY, AND NUTRITIONAL AND LIFESTYLE MODIFICATIONS.	2009