A metabolomic profile of biological aging in 250,341 individuals from the UK Biobank

S Zhang, Z Wang, Y Wang, Y Zhu, Q Zhou… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The metabolomic profile of aging is complex. Here, we analyse 325 nuclear magnetic
resonance (NMR) biomarkers from 250,341 UK Biobank participants, identifying 54 …

Frailty in individuals with depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety disorders: longitudinal analyses of all-cause mortality

J Mutz, U Choudhury, J Zhao, A Dregan - BMC medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Frailty is a medical syndrome that is strongly associated with mortality risk and
an emerging global health burden. Mental disorders are associated with reduced life …

[HTML][HTML] Associations of air pollution with COVID-19 positivity, hospitalisations, and mortality: observational evidence from UK Biobank

C Sheridan, J Klompmaker, S Cummins, P James… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Individual-level studies with adjustment for important COVID-19 risk factors suggest positive
associations of long-term air pollution exposure (particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide) …

Biological age estimation using circulating blood biomarkers

J Bortz, A Guariglia, L Klaric, D Tang, P Ward… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Biological age captures physiological deterioration better than chronological age and is
amenable to interventions. Blood-based biomarkers have been identified as suitable …

The potential of integrating human and mouse discovery platforms to advance our understanding of cardiometabolic diseases

AW Jurrjens, MM Seldin, C Giles, PJ Meikle, BG Drew… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Cardiometabolic diseases encompass a range of interrelated conditions that arise from
underlying metabolic perturbations precipitated by genetic, environmental, and lifestyle …

Mediating and moderating effects of plasma proteomic biomarkers on the association between poor oral health problems and brain white matter microstructural …

MA Beydoun, HA Beydoun, YH Hu, Z Li… - Molecular …, 2025 - nature.com
The plasma proteome can mediate associations between periodontal disease (Pd) and
brain white matter integrity (WMI). We screened 5089 UK Biobank participants aged 40–70 …

Psychological factors substantially contribute to biological aging: evidence from the aging rate in Chinese older adults

F Galkin, K Kochetov, D Koldasbayeva… - Aging (Albany …, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We have developed a deep learning aging clock using blood test data from the China
Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, which has a mean absolute error of 5.68 years …

Why do we care more about disease than health?

M Picard - Phenomics, 2022 - Springer
Modern Western biomedical research and clinical practice are primarily focused on disease.
This disease-centric approach has yielded an impressive amount of knowledge around what …

Associations between air pollution and multimorbidity in the UK Biobank: a cross-sectional study

A Ronaldson, J Arias de la Torre, M Ashworth… - Frontiers in public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Long-term exposure to air pollution concentrations is known to be adversely
associated with a broad range of single non-communicable diseases, but its role in …

Cardiovascular health, infection burden and their interactive association with brain volumetric and white matter integrity outcomes in the UK Biobank

MA Beydoun, HA Beydoun, SD Gale, D Hedges… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Cardiovascular health is associated with brain magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) markers of pathology and infections may modulate this association. Methods Using …