People experiencing social disadvantage tend to show faster biological aging, and this association was strongest when using the newest generation of epigenetic clocks. This is according to a study — “Social determinants of health and epigenetic clocks: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 140 studies” by Y. E. Willems, A. D. Rezaki, M. Aikins, A. Bahl, Q. Wu, D. W. Belsky, and L. Raffington — that was published in Nature Human Behaviour. The…
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