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ReviewTranslational psychiatry2023

Associations of stress and stress-related psychiatric disorders with GrimAge acceleration: review and suggestions for future work.

Ekaterina Protsenko, Owen M Wolkowitz, Kristine Yaffe

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Review in Translational psychiatry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Lifetime trauma exposure and accelerated epigenetic aging among midlife women.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025
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  9. Quantification of Epigenetic Aging in Public Health.Annual review of public health · 2025
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  15. Geroscience-Centric Perspective for Geriatric Psychiatry: Integrating Aging Biology With Geriatric Mental Health Research.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2024
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  16. Methylation ofFrontiers in genetics · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ekaterina ProtsenkoDepartment of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA. protsenk@stanford.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-3519-7291
Owen M WolkowitzWeill Institute for Neurosciences and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0655-5042
Kristine YaffeDepartment Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The notion of "biological aging" as distinct from chronological aging has been of increasing interest in psychiatry, and many studies have explored associations of stress and psychiatric illness with accelerated biological aging. The "epigenetic clocks" are one avenue of this research, wherein "biological age" is estimated using DNA methylation data from specific CpG dinucleotide sites within the human genome. Many iterations of the epigenetic clocks have been developed, but the GrimAge clock continues to stand out for its ability to predict morbidity and mortality. Several studies have now explored associations of stress, PTSD, and MDD with GrimAge acceleration (GrimAA). While stress, PTSD, and MDD are distinct psychiatric entities, they may share common mechanisms underlying accelerated biological aging. Yet, no one has offered a review of the evidence on associations of stress and stress-related psychopathology with GrimAA. In this review, we identify nine publications on associations of stress, PTSD, and MDD with GrimAA. We find that results are mixed both within and across each of these exposures. However, we also find that analytic methods - and specifically, the choice of covariates - vary widely between studies. To address this, we draw upon popular methods from the field of clinical epidemiology to offer (1) a systematic framework for covariate selection, and (2) an approach to results reporting that facilitates analytic consensus. Although covariate selection will differ by the research question, we encourage researchers to consider adjustment for tobacco, alcohol use, physical activity, race, sex, adult socioeconomic status, medical comorbidity, and blood cell composition.

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Mental DisordersPsychophysiologic DisordersAccelerationAdultAgingAlcohol DrinkingDNA MethylationEpigenesis, GeneticHumans

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PMID37130894
PMCPMC10154294

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