Epigenetic Age and Cardiometabolic Disease in Guatemalan Adults
Objectives: Epigenetic clocks, biomarkers of aging, show older biological ages among individuals with cardiometabolic disease. Most clocks were developed and validated in Western populations. We investigated associations of epigenetic clocks with obesity, diabetes, and hypertension among Guatemalan adults.
Authors
- Melissa Chapnick (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4674-7727)
- Aryeh D. Stein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1138-6458)
- Lisa R. Staimez
- Zhaohui Qin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1583-146X)
- Viola Vaccarino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9054-0654)
- Elaine A. Yu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2433-9562)
- Alicia K. Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8537-5156)
- Manuel Ramírez‐Zea (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5107-9175)
- Karen Conneely
Institutions
- Emory University (US)
- Vitalant (US)
- Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (GT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Current Developments in Nutrition
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2025.106033
- Primary Topic
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Food and Agriculture