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ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2021

Moving geroscience from the bench to clinical care and health policy.

Felipe Sierra, Avshalom Caspi, Richard H Fortinsky, Laura Haynes, Gordon J Lithgow, Terrie E Moffitt, S Jay Olshansky, Daniel Perry, Eric Verdin, George A Kuchel

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Article in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
54citing papers in PubMed
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed, 90 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. HEALTHY AGING: THE PROMISE, AND PERILS, OF GEROSCIENCE.Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association · 2025
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  20. The role of science communication in advancing translational gerontology.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Felipe SierraNational Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Avshalom CaspiDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Richard H FortinskyUConn Center on Aging, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
Laura HaynesUConn Center on Aging, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
Gordon J LithgowBuck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California, USA.
Terrie E MoffittDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
S Jay OlshanskySchool of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Daniel PerryAlliance for Aging Research, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Eric VerdinBuck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California, USA.
George A KuchelUConn Center on Aging, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
University of Connecticut · USBuck Institute for Research on Aging · USDuke University · USAlliance for Aging Research · USNational Institutes of Health · USUniversity of Illinois Chicago · US

Funding

Research Education ComponentP30AG067988 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI Richard H Fortinsky, GEORGE A KUCHEL · 2021 to 2026
$9.5M
A temporal bioenergetic, metabolomics, and proteomic map of Alzheimer's disease in invertebrate modelsRF1AG057358 · NIA · BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING · PI ANDERSEN, JULIE KAY, LITHGOW, GORDON J · 2017 to 2017
$3.0M
Geroscience Education and Training (GET) NetworkR25AG073119 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI ESPINOZA, SARA ELYSE, KUCHEL, GEORGE A · 2021 to 2023
$925k
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG067988NIA NIH HHS R25 AG073119NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG057358
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Geriatricians and others must embrace the emerging field of geroscience. Until recently geroscience research was pursued in laboratory animals, but now this field requires specialized expertise in the care of vulnerable older patients with multiple chronic diseases and geriatric syndromes, the population likely to benefit the most from emerging therapies. While chronological aging measures the inevitable passage of clock time that occurs equally for everyone, biological aging varies among individuals, and importantly, it is modifiable. Advances in our understanding of biological aging, the discovery of strategies for modifying its rate, and an appreciation of aging as a shared risk factor for chronic diseases have jointly led to the Geroscience Hypothesis. This hypothesis states that interventions modifying aging biology can slow its progression-resulting in the delay or prevention of the onset of multiple diseases and disorders. Here we wish to report on the Third Geroscience Summit held at National Institutes of Health on November 4-5, 2019, which highlighted the importance of engaging other disciplines including clinicians. Involvement by scientists with expertise in clinical trials, health outcomes research, behavioral and social sciences, health policy, and economics is urgently needed to translate geroscience discoveries from the bench to clinical care and health policy. Adding to the urgency of broadening this geroscience coalition is the emergence of biological aging as one the most important modifiable factors of COVID-19, combined with the inability of our society to once again recognize and confront aging as a priority and opportunity when facing these types of public health emergencies.

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Chronobiology DisciplineGeriatricsHealth PolicyAgedAged, 80 and overAgingChronic DiseaseCOVID-19FemaleHumansMaleSARS-CoV-2agingeconomygeriatriciansgerosciencesocial

Identifiers

PMID34145908
PMCPMC10202082
OpenAlexW3168708967

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