Epigenetic aging during the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective longitudinal study with prepandemic baseline data in children, adolescents, and adults.
Psychosocial stress is a risk factor for aging-related diseases. The COVID-19 pandemic placed a psychosocial burden on individuals, potentially increasing the risk for aging-related diseases for which epigenetic clocks are used as early biomarkers. Based on four epigenetic clocks (DunedinPACE, GrimAge2, Horvath, and Pe...