By Regina Schaffer – Healio
PHILADELPHIA — Data presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions show that higher overall CV health as measured by the Life’s Essential 8 score is associated with lower biological age.
Phenotypic age, a new biomarker-based biological aging measure, captures morbidity and mortality risk in the general population; however, any associations between CV health as measured by the enhanced Life’s Essential 8 framework with phenotypic age and phenotypic age acceleration have not been evaluated, according to Nour Makarem, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s Mailman School of Public Health.
