by Tyler Durden
Wednesday, Jul 14, 2021 - 10:50 PM
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Buck Institute for Research have developed a method for predicting how strong your immune system is, how soon you'll become frail, and whether a person has undiscovered cardiovascular problems that could lead to serious illness down the road.
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[N]ot all humans age biologically at the same rate. You see this in the clinic — some older people are extremely disease-prone, while others are the picture of health," said senior author David Furman, PhD, who runs Stanford's 1000 Immunomes Project.
Published July 12 in
Nature Aging, the 26-author collaboration found that bloodbourne inflammation markers hold the key to how one will age.