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Weight management intervention identifies association of decreased DNA methylation age with improved functional age measures in older adults with obesity
2 Mar 2021
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BACKGROUND: Assessing functional ability is an important component of understanding healthy aging. Objective measures of functional ability include grip strength, gait speed, sit-to-stand time, and 6-min walk distance. Using samples from a weight loss clinical trial in older adults with obesity, we examined the association between changes in physical function and DNA-methylation-based biological age at baseline...
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