Being male, having overweight and depression can influence aging
Written by Beth JoJack on February 14, 2021 — Fact checked by Harriet Pike, Ph.D.
A study finds that biological aging is linked to both mental and physical health.
Factors consistently related to advanced biological aging include: being male, smoking, being overweight, and having depression.
The researchers found that depression is linked to more advanced biological aging.
Combining aging measures from multiple cellular levels best captures biological age.
Our chronological age, of course, is what we celebrate with each passing birthday. But people who are the same chronological age may not be aging at the same rate.