{"id":237377,"date":"2026-05-19T02:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/written-in-the-eye-how-the-retinas-biological-age-could-help-predict-osteoporosis-risk"},"modified":"2026-05-19T02:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:26:25","slug":"written-in-the-eye-how-the-retinas-biological-age-could-help-predict-osteoporosis-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/written-in-the-eye-how-the-retinas-biological-age-could-help-predict-osteoporosis-risk","title":{"rendered":"Written in the eye: How the retina\u2019s biological age could help predict osteoporosis risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/written-in-the-eye-how-the-retinas-biological-age-could-help-predict-osteoporosis-risk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eyes, the high-resolution biological devices that help us visualize the outside world, are now being used as a portal to assess our internal health. Scientists have found that a closer evaluation of how one\u2019s retina is aging can provide crucial hints about bone health, especially in conditions such as osteoporosis, which makes bones weaker and more prone to fractures.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/digitalhealth\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pdig.0001360\" target=\"_blank\">recent study<\/a> conducted in Singapore and the UK collected over 45,000 retinal images and used an artificial intelligence (AI) tool called <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2023-03-retinal-scans-non-invasive-inexpensive-method.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">RetiAGE<\/a> to estimate a person\u2019s retinal biological age. When researchers compared retinal age with bone mineral density, they found an inverse relationship between the two.<\/p>\n<p>Among participants in Singapore, people with older-looking retinas tended to have lower bone mineral density and higher fracture risk scores. Meanwhile, the UK-based cohort, where participants were studied for over a decade, revealed that a higher retinal biological age at the start of the study was a predictor for a greater chance of developing osteoporosis by the end of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eyes, the high-resolution biological devices that help us visualize the outside world, are now being used as a portal to assess our internal health. Scientists have found that a closer evaluation of how one\u2019s retina is aging can provide crucial hints about bone health, especially in conditions such as osteoporosis, which makes bones weaker and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}