{"id":851,"date":"2023-02-06T17:06:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T17:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=851"},"modified":"2023-02-06T17:06:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T17:06:25","slug":"a-blood-test-could-reveal-how-quickly-or-slowly-you-are-ageing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=851","title":{"rendered":"A blood test could reveal how quickly or slowly you are ageing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/api.addthis.com\/oexchange\/0.8\/forward\/facebook\/offer?pubid=ns.html&amp;url=https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2244453-a-blood-test-could-reveal-how-quickly-or-slowly-you-are-ageing\/&amp;title=A%20blood%20test%20could%20reveal%20how%20quickly%20or%20slowly%20you%20are%20ageing&amp;description=A%20blood%20test%20that%20measures%20changes%20in%20gene%20expression%20to%20estimate%20a%20person%27s%20age%20can%20also%20help%20predict%20whether%20a%20person%20is%20more%20likely%20to%20develop%20a%20chronic%20disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/api.addthis.com\/oexchange\/0.8\/forward\/twitter\/offer?pubid=ns.html&amp;url=https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2244453-a-blood-test-could-reveal-how-quickly-or-slowly-you-are-ageing\/&amp;title=A%20blood%20test%20could%20reveal%20how%20quickly%20or%20slowly%20you%20are%20ageing&amp;description=A%20blood%20test%20that%20measures%20changes%20in%20gene%20expression%20to%20estimate%20a%20person%27s%20age%20can%20also%20help%20predict%20whether%20a%20person%20is%20more%20likely%20to%20develop%20a%20chronic%20disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/api.addthis.com\/oexchange\/0.8\/forward\/whatsapp\/offer?pubid=ns.html&amp;url=https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2244453-a-blood-test-could-reveal-how-quickly-or-slowly-you-are-ageing\/&amp;title=A%20blood%20test%20could%20reveal%20how%20quickly%20or%20slowly%20you%20are%20ageing&amp;description=A%20blood%20test%20that%20measures%20changes%20in%20gene%20expression%20to%20estimate%20a%20person%27s%20age%20can%20also%20help%20predict%20whether%20a%20person%20is%20more%20likely%20to%20develop%20a%20chronic%20disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/api.addthis.com\/oexchange\/0.8\/forward\/linkedin\/offer?pubid=ns.html&amp;url=https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2244453-a-blood-test-could-reveal-how-quickly-or-slowly-you-are-ageing\/&amp;title=A%20blood%20test%20could%20reveal%20how%20quickly%20or%20slowly%20you%20are%20ageing&amp;description=A%20blood%20test%20that%20measures%20changes%20in%20gene%20expression%20to%20estimate%20a%20person%27s%20age%20can%20also%20help%20predict%20whether%20a%20person%20is%20more%20likely%20to%20develop%20a%20chronic%20disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/api.addthis.com\/oexchange\/0.8\/forward\/reddit\/offer?pubid=ns.html&amp;url=https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2244453-a-blood-test-could-reveal-how-quickly-or-slowly-you-are-ageing\/&amp;title=A%20blood%20test%20could%20reveal%20how%20quickly%20or%20slowly%20you%20are%20ageing&amp;description=A%20blood%20test%20that%20measures%20changes%20in%20gene%20expression%20to%20estimate%20a%20person%27s%20age%20can%20also%20help%20predict%20whether%20a%20person%20is%20more%20likely%20to%20develop%20a%20chronic%20disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"mailto:?subject=A%20blood%20test%20could%20reveal%20how%20quickly%20or%20slowly%20you%20are%20ageing&amp;body=A%20blood%20test%20that%20measures%20changes%20in%20gene%20expression%20to%20estimate%20a%20person%27s%20age%20can%20also%20help%20predict%20whether%20a%20person%20is%20more%20likely%20to%20develop%20a%20chronic%20disease%0D%0Aread%20more:%20https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2244453-a-blood-test-could-reveal-how-quickly-or-slowly-you-are-ageing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Age affects us all eventually, but&nbsp;a&nbsp;lucky few seem to stave off the effects of ageing for longer. A&nbsp;new blood test may help us understand why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As well as telling us how fast we are ageing, the test can also predict whether a person is more likely to develop a chronic disease or die in the near future. It is an update on epigenetic clocks, tests that estimate a person\u2019s biological age based on markers thought to control the \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2244453-a-blood-test-could-reveal-how-quickly-or-slowly-you-are-ageing\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2244453-a-blood-test-could-reveal-how-quickly-or-slowly-you-are-ageing\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age affects us all eventually, but&nbsp;a&nbsp;lucky few seem to stave off the effects of ageing for longer. A&nbsp;new blood test may help us understand why. As well as telling us how fast we are ageing, the test can also predict whether a person is more likely to develop a chronic disease or die in the near future. It is an update on epigenetic clocks, tests that estimate a person\u2019s biological age based on markers thought to control the \u2026 Original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-aging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}