Sentences with phrase «biological age of a person»

«The charter encourages researchers to take into account the biological age of a person rather than their chronological age,» he says, adding that imposing upper age limits on clinical trials is unjustifiable.

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«Dementia, including the most common form Alzheimer's Disease, and related neurodegenerative conditions are dramatically rising in frequency as people live longer and our population ages,» says study lead Professor Robert Richards, from the University of Adelaide's School of Biological Sciences.

Scientists suspect there may be some kind of intrinsic biological clock that runs slower in some people and quicker in others, which would accelerate aging and wear down the body's protective processes.

People carrying the variant might further accelerate the biological aging process if they smoke, are obese or don't exercise — all of which are bad news for telomeres.

A new study by University of Southern California and Yale University researchers suggests that at least part of the gains in life expectancy over recent decades may be due to a change in the rate of biological aging, rather than simply keeping ailing people alive.

In a paper appearing the week of July 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team from the U.S., UK, Israel and New Zealand introduces a panel of 18 biological measures that may be combined to determine whether people are aging faster or slower than their peers.

In a paper appearing today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers showed that even among young adults, a person's biological age may differ by many years from their actual chronological age.

A biological age of 40, for example, meant that person was aging at a rate of 1.2 years per year over the 12 years the study examined.

When heavily decomposed, unrecognizable bodies came into the morgue, she pieced together biological profiles to provide investigators with an age range or an indication of the person's height.

A few people showed virtually no aging over 12 years, a few showed three years of biological aging per year lived, and the rest fell in between.

A study last year found that people in their 70s whose biological age is five years greater than their chronological age have a 20 percent higher risk of dying over six years than people whose biological and chronological ages are the same.

Genetic factors which predispose people to accelerated «biological ageing» also increase their risk of developing depression in childhood, according to a new study from King's College London.

«Our study uncovers the first genetic evidence explaining why some people look older for their age,» write the authors of the paper, in the latest issue of the journal Current Biology, «and provides new leads for further investigating the biological basis of how old or young people look.»

«[P] sychological distress... has a large, detrimental impact on the wear and tear of a person's body, resulting in accelerated biological aging,» one of the study's authors explained in a news release.

Still, Gunn said, understanding the biological «secrets» of youthful - looking people might lead to «innovative ways» to help slow the facial aging process.

Dr. David Sinclair, Co-Director of the Biological Mechanisms of Aging at Harvard Medical School was named to the Times Magazine list of «Most Influential People in the World» after his research found a key cause of aging and a potential weapon to reversAging at Harvard Medical School was named to the Times Magazine list of «Most Influential People in the World» after his research found a key cause of aging and a potential weapon to reversaging and a potential weapon to reverse it.

Telomeres are, therefore, considered a reliable marker for biological aging (the age of a persons cells).

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1) There are too many people living beyond the age of biological purpose.

Some of the county websites are stating that if either of you are 16 or 17 years of age, both parents (either biological or adoptive) or legal guardians must give their consent to your marriage in person and provide a certified copy of your birth certificate along with valid identification.

Participants include eligible fathers who have been tried and convicted as an adult, are low - income, and may be an expectant father, a biological father, an adoptive father, a stepfather, or a person who is acknowledged as a father figure of a dependent child up to 24 years of age.

the protected class in SECTION 3.1 of NCGS 143 - 422.2 «It is the public policy of this State to protect and safeguard the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain and hold employment without discrimination or abridgement on account of race, religion, color, national origin, age, biological sex or handicap by employers which regularly employ 15 or more employees.»