Vencel Juhász, Anna Ország, Dorottya Balla, Liliána Szabó, Nóra Sydó, Orsolya Kiss, Emese Csulak, Máté Babity, Zsófia Dohy, Réka Skoda, Dávid Becker, Béla Merkely, András Benczúr, Hajnalka Vágó, Csaba Kerepesi
PURPOSE: We develop blood test-based aging clocks and examine how these clocks reflect high-volume sports activity. METHODS: We use blood tests and body metrics data of 421 Hungarian athletes and 283 age-matched controls (mean age 24.1 and 23.9 years, respectively), the latter selected from a group of healthy Caucasians of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to represent the general population (n = 11,412). We train two age prediction models (i...
February 29, 2024: Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise