Black dashed line in the figure shows the direct correlation of chronological age (horizontal axis) with genetic age markers (vertical axis) for uninfected individuals (blue), and significant departure for infected individuals (red) especially for younger individuals.
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This figure shows the same results but after subtracting the chronological age. The age difference that results across the population is
10.45 ± 7.29 years (+5.25 years above the range of normality) compared with 3.68 ± 8.17 years for COVID-19-free population (p < 0.0001)
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Here are the results separated into three age groups, with younger people (under 60) aging by 15 years, 61-69 aging by 10 years, and 70 and over gaining about 3 years on average.
The linear fit of aging extrapolates to a biological aging of over 30 years for children.
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COVID infection aging for
20 year olds is 27 years, so they have a biological marker age almost 50
30 year olds is 23 years, so a biological marker age of 53.
40 year olds is 18 years, so biological marker age is 58
Children 5 years old, gain 33 years, to be almost 40.
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"This is where the challenge lies in understanding the risk that this virus poses to our health. The virus enters primarily via the respiratory tract, but then goes on to infect your organs across your body via your blood vessels.
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"I pointed this trend out to someone who was unaware of long COVID and the sheer number of people who appear to be suffering from it.“If many people are gradually developing long COVID,” they asked me. “Wouldn’t we see it in the economic data?”Yes, we would.And in fact, we are.3/
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