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. 2021 Feb 9;10:e59479. doi: 10.7554/eLife.59479

Table 1. Sample description.

Telomere
Length
Epigenetic
Aging
Transcriptomic
Aging
Proteomic
Aging
Metabolomic
Aging
Composite
Index
# Subjects 2936 1130 1990 1837 2910 653
Demographic Sex (%female) 66.00 65.00 67.00 67.00 66.00 66.00
Education years (mean) 12.15 11.93 12.07 12.07 12.15 11.71
Age (mean) 41.81 41.53 38.71 41.37 41.94 41.23
Lifestyle Alcohol use (units per week, mean) 6.24 6.54 6.38 6.39 6.29 6.48
Smoking (pack years, mean) 11.00 11.43 11.84 10.37 11.12 10.90
Physical activity (MET minutes per week, mean) 3679.72 3638.54 3729.20 3741.00 3668.13 3525.05
Somatic Health BMI (mean) 25.60 25.67 25.68 25.66 25.60 25.82
Physical disability (score, mean) 24.40 29.45 26.00 23.22 24.45 30.27
Lung capacity (PEF in liter/minute, mean) 477.74 479.75 478.42 477.19 477.23 475.23
Hand grip strength (kg, mean) 37.06 37.77 37.08 37.46 37.05 37.74
Cardiometabolic disease (%cases) 18 18 18 18 18 17
Respiratory disease (%cases) 9 9 9 9 9 10
Musculoskeletal disease (%cases) 10 10 10 9 10 9
Digestive disease (%cases) 9 9 9 8 9 8
Neurological disease (%cases) 3 2 3 3 3 2
Endocrine disease (%cases) 3 3 3 3 3 4
Cancer (%cases) 7 8 7 7 7 8
Metabolic syndrome (# components, mean) 1.36 1.39 1.37 1.33 1.36 1.41
# Chronic diseases (mean) 0.61 0.62 0.62 0.58 0.61 0.63
Mental Health Current MDD (%cases) 27 72 34 26 27 76
Depression severity (IDS, mean) 21.46 25.80 22.91 20.96 21.48 26.67
Childhood Trauma (score from 0-4, mean) 0.91 0.97 1.00 0.87 0.92 1.01