The biology of aging, biological age and aging well.
An analysis of 1.32 billion T cell clones from 798 people with cancer and 5052 without, published in November 2026 in Aging Cell, found that T cell receptor diversity declines faster after…
A prospective cohort study published Oct. 7, 2026, in GeroScience found that people whose food preferences leaned strongly toward sweets had a 79% higher risk of dementia than those with health-aligned preferences,…
A study of US nursing home residents with atrial fibrillation, published Oct. 1, 2026, in JAMA Network Open, found that stopping blood thinners on entry was not linked to more strokes or…
A study of 39 021 adults aged 50 or older in the USA, England, Europe, China and Japan, published in October 2026 in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, linked stronger social connection to…
In a cohort study published Oct. 27, 2026, in Diabetes Care, people 75 and older with type 2 diabetes who started an SGLT2 inhibitor had lower risks of acute kidney injury and…
In 13,908 Japanese adults aged 50 to 79, a population that eats a lot of seafood, seafood and omega-3 intake were not linked to hearing thresholds. In men, higher saturated fat intake…
In a randomized trial of 333 frail inpatients aged 70 or older with heart disease, a program combining rehabilitation exercise, education, nutrition advice, acupoint massage and medicine review improved frailty and physical…
In a study of more than two million older adults in Ontario, Canada, 24 potentially inappropriate prescribing cascades, where a side effect of one drug is treated with another, met all priority…
A study of two Spanish cohorts of older adults, published Oct. 6, 2026, in the Journals of Gerontology, found that people who most closely followed the Planetary Health Diet had lower odds…
A study of 5296 adults aged 40 and older in The Gambia, South Africa and Zimbabwe, published Oct. 26, 2026, in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, found that 36% had multimorbidity, ranging from…
In 3596 Australians aged 45 to 70 followed for six years, mild-or-greater hearing loss rose from 14% to 26%. Smoking, higher weight, high blood pressure, prediabetes and noisy workplaces were linked to…
An analysis of the Danish DANFLU-2 trial of 332 438 adults 65 and older, published in September 2026 in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, found that the advantage of a high-dose flu vaccine…
A meta-analysis of 13 851 adults from Australia, Iceland and the USA, published Oct. 13, 2026, in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, linked increasing hearing loss to higher mortality, and current hearing aid…
A study of four aging cohorts across Asia, North America and Europe, published in October 2026 in Alzheimer's & Dementia, estimated 24.7 years free of cognitive impairment from age 50 for people…
In a study of 12,135 older adults in England published Oct. 29, 2026, in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, lower education and lower wealth were linked to higher allostatic load, a measure of…
In a Chinese cohort published Oct. 30, 2026, in Ageing Research Reviews, middle-aged and older adults with cognitive frailty had a 2.74 hazard ratio for developing combined heart, kidney and metabolic disease.…
In two cohorts of adults aged 60 or older from the US and China, a biological age score built from 12 blood and body markers was modestly linked to death, but it…
In 2,380 adults who had weight-loss surgery, an artificial intelligence reading of the electrocardiogram showed a heart age 3.86 years older than real age before surgery, with a modest decline after the…
