ArticleInnovation in aging2019
How Does Subjective Age Get "Under the Skin"? The Association Between Biomarkers and Feeling Older or Younger Than One's Age: The Health and Retirement Study.
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- Personality and subjective age: Evidence from six samples.Psychology and aging · 2022Pooled it
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- Sleep and Subjective Age: A Narrative Review of Epidemiological Evidence, Underlying Mechanisms, and Population Differences.Nature and science of sleep · 2026Review
- Daily Stressor Appraisals and Subjective Age Predict Daily Affective Ratings.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Mexican Health and Aging Study Biomarker and Genetic Data Profile.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2024Article
- Feeling Younger on Active Summer Days? On the Interplay of Behavioral and Environmental Factors With Day-to-Day Variability in Subjective Age.Innovation in aging · 2024Article
- War-Related Life Course Stress and Late-Life Subjective Age in Northern Vietnam.Innovation in aging · 2024Article
- Correlates of felt age in caregivers of people with dementia: findings from the IDEAL study.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Subjective age and attitudes toward own aging across two decades of historical time.Psychology and aging · 2022Article
- The subjective life course framework: Integrating life course sociology with gerontological perspectives on subjective aging.Advances in life course research · 2022Review
- The Contributions of Hypertension Diagnosis and Blood Pressure Control to Subjective Life Expectancy in a Representative Sample of Older U.S. Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2022Article
- Prospective associations between subjective age and fear of falling in older adults.Aging & mental health · 2022Article
- Subjective age and inflammation risk in midlife adults: Findings from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) studies.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2021Article
- Subjective Aging and Incident Cardiovascular Disease.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2021Article
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- Anti-aging technoscience & the biologization of cumulative inequality: Affinities in the biopolitics of successful aging.Journal of aging studies · 2020Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesThough subjective age is a well-recognized risk factor for several chronic diseases, the biological basis for these associations remains poorly understood. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
methodsWe used new comprehensive biomarker data from the 2016 wave of the nationally representative Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to evaluate the association between biomarker levels and self-reported subjective age in a subset of 3,740 HRS participants who provided a blood sample. We measured biomarkers in seven biological domains associated with aging: inflammation, glycemia, lipids, liver function, endocrine function, renal function, and cardiac function. The primary outcome was the age discrepancy score (subjective age - chronological age) categorized as those who felt younger, older, or the same as their chronological age (reference group). Analyses adjusted for comprehensive psychosocial factors (chronic stress index, depression score), demographic factors (race, sex, body mass index, marital status, physical activity), and prevalence of chronic health conditions (comorbidity index).
resultsThe prevalence of clinically relevant reduced levels of albumin concentrations was lower in those who felt younger (8.8% vs. 16.0%; DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: These results suggest that people who feel younger may have favorable biomarker profiles and as a result may have lower prevalence of age-related diseases when compared with those who feel older or those who feel the same as their chronological age.
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