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ArticleScientific reports2020

Generating synthetic aging trajectories with a weighted network model using cross-sectional data.

Spencer Farrell, Arnold Mitnitski, Kenneth Rockwood, Andrew Rutenberg

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  2. Multimodal Transformers and Their Applications in Drug Target Discovery for Aging and Age-Related Diseases.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2024
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4 authors.

Spencer FarrellDepartment of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada. spencer.farrell@dal.ca.
Arnold MitnitskiDivision of Geriatric Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Kenneth RockwoodDivision of Geriatric Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Andrew RutenbergDepartment of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada. andrew.rutenberg@dal.ca.

Funding

CIHR PJT-156114
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We develop a computational model of human aging that generates individual health trajectories with a set of observed health attributes. Our model consists of a network of interacting health attributes that stochastically damage with age to form health deficits, leading to eventual mortality. We train and test the model for two different cross-sectional observational aging studies that include simple binarized clinical indicators of health. In both studies, we find that cohorts of simulated individuals generated from the model resemble the observed cross-sectional data in both health characteristics and mortality. We can generate large numbers of synthetic individual aging trajectories with our weighted network model. Predicted average health trajectories and survival probabilities agree well with the observed data.

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LongevityAgedAged, 80 and overComputer SimulationCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleGeriatric AssessmentHealth StatusHumansMaleMortalityObservational Studies as Topic

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PMID33199733
PMCPMC7670406

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