| BMI | Body Mass Index |
| CI | Confidence Interval |
| CPB | Cumulative Preventable Burden |
| CpG | Cytosine-phosphate-Guanine |
| DL | DerSimonian–Laird |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| EAA | Epigenetic Age Acceleration |
| GRADE | Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation |
| HR | Hazard Ratio |
| I2 | I-squared (heterogeneity statistic) |
| MEAB-Index | Modifiable Epigenetic Aging Burden Index |
| MEDLINE | Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online |
| NOS | Newcastle–Ottawa Scale |
| OR | Odds Ratio |
| PICOS | Population, Exposure, Comparator, Outcome, Study design |
| PMC | PubMed Central |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses |
| PROSPERO | International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews |
| RoB 2 | Cochrane Risk of Bias 2 tool |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| SE | Standard Error |
| SMD | Standardized Mean Difference |
| τ2 | Tau-squared (between-study variance) |