{"id":238878,"date":"2026-06-13T06:15:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/faster-biological-aging-consistently-linked-to-poverty-and-discrimination"},"modified":"2026-06-13T06:15:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:15:05","slug":"faster-biological-aging-consistently-linked-to-poverty-and-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/faster-biological-aging-consistently-linked-to-poverty-and-discrimination","title":{"rendered":"Faster biological aging consistently linked to poverty and discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The study, published<\/a> in Nature Human Behaviour<\/i>, demonstrates that social inequality, such as poverty and racism, is related to biological aging measured in the epigenome, also known as \u201cepigenetic clocks.\u201d Epigenetic clocks<\/a> analyze patterns of chemical marks on DNA to estimate a person\u2019s biological age or the rate at which their body is aging. These tools are increasingly used by scientists to study how environmental exposures, lifestyle and social conditions affect health across the life course.<\/p>\n

Previous individual studies have shown that epigenetic clocks are sensitive to socioeconomic and racial or ethnic disparities. However, because multiple types of epigenetic clocks exist, it has remained unclear which measures best capture the effects of social determinants of health, at which stages of life socioeconomic exposures most affect epigenetic aging, and whether associations differ by sex or by technical factors such as the tissue in which epigenetic data are collected. This study integrates findings across many independent studies, offering a comprehensive test of whether these associations are consistent and robust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The study, published in Nature Human Behaviour, demonstrates that social inequality, such as poverty and racism, is related to biological aging measured in the epigenome, also known as \u201cepigenetic clocks.\u201d Epigenetic clocks analyze patterns of chemical marks on DNA to estimate a person\u2019s biological age or the rate at which their body is aging. These [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,412,269,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238878","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=238878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}