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Allostatic Load and Biological Aging Indicators in the MIDUS National Survey

Indices quantifying allostatic load (AL) and biological aging (BA) have received widespread use in epidemiological and health science literature. However, little attention has been paid to the conceptual and quantitative overlap between these indicators. By reviewing literature utilizing measures of...

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Autores principales: Hastings, Waylon, Shalev, Idan, Almeida, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7743403/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1694
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description Indices quantifying allostatic load (AL) and biological aging (BA) have received widespread use in epidemiological and health science literature. However, little attention has been paid to the conceptual and quantitative overlap between these indicators. By reviewing literature utilizing measures of AL and BA, we highlight differences with respect to biological markers employed and approach toward scale construction. Further, we outline opportunities where AL indices might be improved by adopting analytical features of BA measures. We demonstrate the utility of this approach using data from The MIDUS National Survey, constructing three indices of allostatic load: one standard approach modeled after Gruenewald et al, 2012, and two alternative formulations informed by BA procedures. The performance of AL indices are juxtaposed against two commonly employed indices of biological aging: Klemera-Doubal Method Biological Age and Homeostatic Dysregulation. All measures were significantly associated with chronological age. Alternative AL formulations were more strongly associated with biological aging measures than with the standard approach. MIDUS participants with increased allostatic load and older biological ages performed worse on tests of physical, cognitive, perceptual, and subjective functioning. Further, MIDUS participants with history of childhood-trauma and mental-health problems were measured as having increased AL and BA. Alternative AL formulations tended to have effect-sizes equivalent to or larger than those observed for BA measures. In conclusion, indices of allostatic load and biological age approximate similar processes when constructed with comparable biomarkers and rigor, in line with their conceptual overlap as proxies of cumulative wear and tear.
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spelling pubmed-77434032020-12-21 Allostatic Load and Biological Aging Indicators in the MIDUS National Survey Hastings, Waylon Shalev, Idan Almeida, David Innov Aging Abstracts Indices quantifying allostatic load (AL) and biological aging (BA) have received widespread use in epidemiological and health science literature. However, little attention has been paid to the conceptual and quantitative overlap between these indicators. By reviewing literature utilizing measures of AL and BA, we highlight differences with respect to biological markers employed and approach toward scale construction. Further, we outline opportunities where AL indices might be improved by adopting analytical features of BA measures. We demonstrate the utility of this approach using data from The MIDUS National Survey, constructing three indices of allostatic load: one standard approach modeled after Gruenewald et al, 2012, and two alternative formulations informed by BA procedures. The performance of AL indices are juxtaposed against two commonly employed indices of biological aging: Klemera-Doubal Method Biological Age and Homeostatic Dysregulation. All measures were significantly associated with chronological age. Alternative AL formulations were more strongly associated with biological aging measures than with the standard approach. MIDUS participants with increased allostatic load and older biological ages performed worse on tests of physical, cognitive, perceptual, and subjective functioning. Further, MIDUS participants with history of childhood-trauma and mental-health problems were measured as having increased AL and BA. Alternative AL formulations tended to have effect-sizes equivalent to or larger than those observed for BA measures. In conclusion, indices of allostatic load and biological age approximate similar processes when constructed with comparable biomarkers and rigor, in line with their conceptual overlap as proxies of cumulative wear and tear. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7743403/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1694 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7743403/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1694
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