Association between the oxidative balance score and biological aging measured by epigenetic clock: insight from the NHANES 1999-2002
Mingming Lv, Zhihui Jiang, Changjiang Deng, Zhiyan Du, Bingxin Bai, Zhilong Wang, Adilai Adilijiang, Ying-Ying Zheng, Xiang Xie · 2026
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Mingming Lv and co-authors link a diet and lifestyle balance score to slower biological aging, in a 2026 paper. Oxidative stress drives cell damage and aging, and two tools measure the sides of that story: an oxidative balance score for habits, and epigenetic clocks for true body age. No study had joined them at scale.
Nearly eighteen hundred adults from a national survey taken around the turn of the century were analyzed. Higher balance scores went with lower epigenetic age, for both the food part and the lifestyle part of the score. The tie to faster aging ran straight and negative, with no bends, and held in every subgroup. Antioxidant leaning habits, the authors say, track with a younger body clock.
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| CREATOR | Mingming Lv, Zhihui Jiang, Changjiang Deng, Zhiyan Du, Bingxin Bai, Zhilong Wang, Adilai Adilijiang, Ying-Ying Zheng, Xiang Xie |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 63 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |