Mit Shah, Marco H de A Inácio, Chang Lu, Pierre-Raphaël Schiratti, Sean L Zheng, Adam Clement, Antonio de Marvao, Wenjia Bai, Andrew P King, James S Ware, Martin R Wilkins, Johanna Mielke, Eren Elci, Ivan Kryukov, Kathryn A McGurk, Christian Bender, Daniel F Freitag, Declan P O'Regan
Cardiovascular ageing is a process that begins early in life and leads to a progressive change in structure and decline in function due to accumulated damage across diverse cell types, tissues and organs contributing to multi-morbidity. Damaging biophysical, metabolic and immunological factors exceed endogenous repair mechanisms resulting in a pro-fibrotic state, cellular senescence and end-organ damage, however the genetic architecture of cardiovascular ageing is not known. Here we use machine learning approaches to quantify cardiovascular age from image-derived traits of vascular function, cardiac motion and myocardial fibrosis, as well as conduction traits from electrocardiograms, in 39,559 participants of UK Biobank...
August 21, 2023: Nature Communications