Reply to Newman: Quantification of biological aging in young adults is not the same thing as the onset of obesity.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

1. The long-term associations of perinatal obesogenic environment with offspring biological aging.American journal of epidemiology · 2025
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2. Conceptual and Analytical Overlap Between Allostatic Load and Systemic Biological Aging Measures: Analyses From the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2022
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3. Socioeconomic Disadvantage and the Pace of Biological Aging in Children.Pediatrics · 2021
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4. An integrative study of five biological clocks in somatic and mental health.eLife · 2021
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5. Biomarkers for Aging Identified in Cross-sectional Studies Tend to Be Non-causative.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2020
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6. Eleven Telomere, Epigenetic Clock, and Biomarker-Composite Quantifications of Biological Aging: Do They Measure the Same Thing?American journal of epidemiology · 2018
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7. The Longitudinal Study of Aging in Human Young Adults: Knowledge Gaps and Research Agenda.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2017
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Quantification of biological aging in young adults.2015
• Comment on
  Is the onset of obesity the same as aging?2015

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

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Abstract

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