Taken together, the work shows that spaceflight can speed and then reverse blood-based aging signals through immune and ...

Keeping cool could help stall the signs of ageing, going by tests on mice carried out by scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Whitehead Institute and Harvard Medical School. The ...

Slim people may still be at risk of a deadly heart attack—because of hidden fat that accelerates ageing of the heart, a major study has found. The dangerous fat—known as visceral fat—builds up deep ...

Liver enzymes that break down alcohol become less efficient with age, causing people to feel the effects of alcohol faster ...

Researchers have developed a new “body clock” tool that calculates people’s biological age — and could even predict the risk of disability or death. The tool, which comes from the University of ...

Prof Claire Steves has published more than 100 scientific papers on ageing - Andrew Crowley I recently had an ECG and my cardiologist told me that it ‘looks as if you have had a mild heart attack’. Do ...

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New research shows fat distribution predicts premature cardiovascular ageing more than BMI, revealing why visceral and liver fat harm the heart while lower-body fat protects women before menopause.