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Associations Between Loneliness, Epigenetic Aging, and Multimorbidity Through Older Adulthood

The Journals of Gerontology, Series B  |  LCC Member: Robert Krueger

  • Baseline loneliness was associated with greater epigenetic age acceleration in the GrimAge measure 
  • Loneliness and GrimAge each predicted increasing condition counts, but there was no evidence of an interactive effect
  • Results suggest the impact of loneliness on multimorbidity may, in part, operate through DNA methylation 

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David M. Quinn 

Dr. Quinn is an Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. He studies racialized inequality in education and the roles that schools, segregation, and teachers’ attitudes and biases play in these inequalities. 

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The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the University of Minnesota Life Course Center on the Demography and Economics of Aging (P30AG066613), funded through a grant from the National Institute on Aging.

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Grant number P30AG066613