Julie Goldenberg is a journalist based in New York City. She was a former associate editor at AARP where she reported on aging in America. Her work has appeared in AARP the Magazine, AARP.org, and Forbes.
A test that uses cells from the inside of your cheek may accurately predict the risk of death within the upcoming year, new research hints.
The long-term hope for tools like CheekAge is to help people slow down or prevent biological aging. But for now, such tools can't tell you how to accomplish that feat, Furman and first study author Maxim Shokhirev, head of computational biology and data science at Tally Health in New York, told Live Science.
By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.The researchers then determined how accurately CheekAge correlates with one's risk of death. To do so, they looked at volunteers enrolled in the Lothian Birth Cohorts, a long-term research program that tracks aging in participants from childhood through adulthood.
As of yet, CheekAge has been used to look at data retroactively — the researchers knew who lived and died and what their respective epigenetics looked like at the time. Having deduced those patterns, they can now use the tool to estimate living people's risk of death.
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