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Associations between alcohol use and accelerated biological ageing.
Addiction biology - 1 Jan 2022
Bøstrand Sunniva M K, Vaher Kadi, de Nooij Laura, Harris Matthew A, Cole James H, Cox Simon R, Marioni Riccardo E, McCartney Daniel L, Walker Rosie M, McIntosh Andrew M, Evans Kathryn L, Whalley Heather C, Wootton Robyn E, Clarke Toni-Kim
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Harmful alcohol use is a leading cause of premature death and is associated with age-related disease. Biological ageing is highly variable between individuals and may deviate from chronological ageing, suggesting that biomarkers of biological ageing (derived from DNA methylation or brain structural measures) may be clinically relevant. Here, we investigated the relationships between alcohol phenotypes and both...
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