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ArticleGeromedicine2026

Encouraging a move toward precision geromedicine.

Luigi Ferrucci, Stefano Donega, Andrea B Maier, Guido Kroemer

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Article in Geromedicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Luigi FerrucciNational Institute on Aging (NIA), Intramural Research Program (IRP), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
Stefano DonegaNational Institute on Aging (NIA), Intramural Research Program (IRP), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
Andrea B MaierNUS Academy for Healthy Longevity, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597, Singapore.
Guido KroemerUniversité Paris Cité, Sorbonne Université, Inserm U1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Equipe labellisée par la Ligue contre le cancer, Paris 75006, France.

Funding

THE BALTIMORE LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF HUMAN AGINGZ01AG000015 · NIA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING · PI FERRUCCI, LUIGI · 1985 to 2008
$11.4M
Biomarkers of Homestatic Dysregulation in Aging and Chronic DiseaseZ01AG000971 · NIA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING · PI FERRUCCI, LUIGI · 2008 to 2008
$89k
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 AG000015Intramural NIH HHS Z01 AG000971Intramural NIH HHS Z99 AG999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aging is a heterogeneous, multi-system process driven by the interplay between accumulating molecular damage and the progressive erosion of resilience. While damage accumulates in a ubiquitous and homogeneous fashion, resilience is finite and unequally distributed across physiological systems and individuals, yielding distinct biological trajectories that diverge early in life, giving rise to the individual-specific decline in physiological function and the manifestation of a diverse spectrum of organ-specific diseases, and converge only when multisystem dysregulation overwhelms compensatory capacity. Early deviations in mitochondrial function, proteostasis, inflammation, and metabolic regulation often remain clinically silent, detectable only through gerodiagnostics, longitudinal, sensitive biomarkers of aging. Yet most biomarkers were developed to detect disease rather than quantify aging biology, and their mechanistic specificity declines with advancing multimorbidity. Precision geromedicine therefore requires the integration of gerodiagnostics that capture system-level resilience and stress responsiveness with measures of functional reserve, behavior, physiology, and the exposome, enabling the identification of individualized aging trajectories and the biological pathways that drive them. This combined approach clarifies causal pathways, enables earlier detection of vulnerability and supports individualized gerointerventions that modify aging trajectories rather than specifically but narrowly focusing on individual age-related diseases.

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agingbiomarkersgeromedicineGerosciencehealthspanmultimorbidityresiliencetrajectories

Identifiers

PMID42266612
PMCPMC13246161

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