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In a new study, investigators evaluated if social contact influenced the age gap between biological age, estimated with artificial intelligence (AI), and chronological age.
Social isolation increases biological aging—making people biologically older than their age—and increases the risk of all-cause mortality, a new study found.1
“This study highlights the critical interplay between social isolation, health and aging,” said investigator Amir Lerman, MD, a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic, in a press release.2
Investigators aimed to evaluate the relationship between social contact and biological aging. To do so, they compared the Social Network Index with the age gap created by the chronological age and the biological age. An AI-enabled electrocardiogram (AI-ECG) determined the predicted biological age.
The study included 280,000 adults aged...
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