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JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES
Volume 72, Issue 7, Pages 877-884Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glw089
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Biological aging; Biomarkers; Frailty indices; Biological age; Health heterogeneity
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [MOP 126018, MOP 209888]
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Understanding the heterogeneity in health of older adults is a compelling question in the biology of aging. We analyzed the performance of five measures of health heterogeneity, judging them by their ability to predict mortality. Using clinical and biomarker data on 1,013 participants of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging who were followed for up to 6 years, we calculated two indices of biological age using the Klemera and Doubal method, which controversially includes using chronological age as a biomarker, and three frailty indices (FIs) that do not include chronological age: a standard clinical FI, an FI from standard laboratory blood tests and blood pressure, and their combination (FI-combined). Predictive validity was tested using Cox proportional hazards analysis and discriminative ability by the area under the receiver-operating characteristic curves. All five measures showed moderate performance that was improved by combining measures to evaluate larger numbers of items. The greatest addition in explanatory power came from the FI-combined that showed the best mortality prediction in an age-adjusted model. More extensive comparisons across different databases are required, but these results do not support including chronological age as a biomarker.
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