Facial Appearance Reflects Human Familial Longevity and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Healthy Individuals

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BACKGROUND: As facial appearance can be readily quantified and skin tissue easily accessed, they could be valuable tools for determining how biological mechanisms influence tissue degeneration with age and, consequently, human health and lifespan. It is unknown, however, whether appearance reflects disease risk or lifespan independently of factors already known to associate with both health and appearance....

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