scholarly journals Personal factors of biological aging in working and non-working respondents in late maturity period

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 639-648
Author(s):  
Azalia Maratovna Zinatullina ◽  
Vadim Pavlovich Melnik ◽  
Albina Aleksandrovna Zimina
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Large City ◽  
Biological Age ◽  
Biological Aging ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
Organ Systems ◽  
Life Path ◽  
Expected Retirement Age

The aim was to study the influence of personal factors on the index of individual biological aging in men and women of mature age who continue to work and those who no longer work. The participants were 347 people, including 212 women aged 56-65 years and 111 men aged 61-69 years. Measurement of biological age, relative biological aging index, assessment of subjective psychological age, expected retirement age, life path questionnaire. Biological age was estimated using a formula that included indicators of metabolism, the work of the cardiovascular, respiratory, and balance organ systems; a psychological health questionnaire was also used. The lowest index of relative biological aging was found in people who continued to work part-time. There is a relationship between the index of relative biological aging and one's characteristics. For men, the index was lowered by the following factors: changing the place of residence, continuing to work after retirement, a high indicator of the expected retirement age, and increased by living in a large city. For women, the index was lowered by the following factors: changing the place of residence, continuing to work after retirement, a high indicator of the expected retirement age, higher education, creative hobbies, studying after retirement.

scholarly journals Personal life strategies and their correlation with biological age

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Tatiana Nikolaevna Berezina
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
Large City ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Biological Age ◽  
Biological Aging ◽  
Work Orientation ◽  
Unhealthy Lifestyle ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Life Path

The goal of this research is to examine the ways of organization of life used by modern men and women, and to determine personal characteristics that are associated with biological age of a person and reduce personal aging markers. The object of this research is the personality and life path, while the subject is the correlation between life organization strategies and rate of biological aging. The following methods were applied in the course of research: life path survey, self-assessment, determination of biological age. The study involved 987 respondents (575 women) aged 35 to 70, from different regions of the Russian Federation. Independent variable implies relative biological aging of the body (biological age –proper biological age); dependent variable– characteristics of life path. The scientific novelty consists in description of the ways of organization of life used by modern men and women. For men is typical: career building, work orientation, unhealthy lifestyle orientation towards family, self-fulfillment; while for women: career building, being a role model, work orientation, unhealthy lifestyle, choice between children and work. It is also proven that biological aging is delayed by the indicators included in most strategies: types of professions “Man – Nature”, “Man-Man”, “Man-Artistic Image”, “Man – Technology”, “Man – Symbol”, and style of cooperation. Biological aging can be accelerated by such indicators as: aggressiveness, overeating, smoking, living in a large city, career. The conclusion is made that personality traits that correlate with biological do not depend on just one life path strategy, however by one or two suit for most of them.

scholarly journals Individually-personal factors of pension stress in representatives of the intellectual type of professions

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.N. Berezina ◽  
N.N. Rybtsova ◽  
S.A. Rybtsov ◽  
G.V. Fatianov
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Biological Age ◽  
Biological Aging ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Life Path

The article introduces data from the study of the severity of social anxiety caused by the expectation of retirement and subsequent retirement; highlights signs of retirement stress: acceleration of biological aging, the discrepancy of psychological and biological age. It also regards individual-personal factors of biopsychological aging. The article presents the results of an empirical study of the biopsychological age of people – Russians by origin – pursuing intel-lectual professions and living in the European Union and in Russia. All the participants were continuing their research activity and were aged from 32 to 70 years, both living in Russia (n=101, women, 62), and having migrated to the European Union countries (n=101, women 56). Methods of assessing biological age with regard on health indicators, subjective psychological age, as well as the questionnaire of life path were applied. The results showed that in Russian sample the signs of retirement stress are more pronounced: the subjects have an acceleration of biological aging at the age of 51–65 years. The personal strategies for preventing retirement stress and maintaining relative juvenility, typical for the intellectual occupation professionals, were singled out: for men — democratic working conditions, positive attitude, collaborative non-ambitious non-aggressive behaviour; and for women — wellbeing, respectful partnership in the couple, friendly working conditions; multiple changes of place of residence. However, the difference in relative juvenility strategy for residents in Russian and EU was also observed.

scholarly journals The influence of quarantine on the indicators of biopsychological age in Russia (longitudinal study)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-69
Author(s):  
T.N. Berezina ◽  
S.A. Rybtsov
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Biological Age ◽  
Stress Factors ◽  
Biological Aging ◽  
Breath Holding ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Aging Index ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Expected Retirement Age

The influence of quarantine on the indicators of biopsychological age is being investigated, data from studies in different countries are presented. Stress factors are distinguished: the disease itself, post-traumatic stress, quarantine factors (social isolation, malnutrition, decreased physical activity, anxiety). The results of a longitudinal study are presented: 1st measurement – 2019, 2nd measurement -2020 (after six months of quarantine). 394 people aged 35-70 years were examined: adults – 158 (114 women), working pensioners – 28 (19 women), non-working pensioners with chronic diseases – 208 (151 women). Methods for assessing biological age by indicators of health, subjective psychological age, and expected retirement age were used. It is shown that in Russia: 1) the effect of quarantine on the biopsychological age is ambivalent, 2) the psychological age of working individuals has changed, they began to feel younger (by 3.3–7.2 years), the expected retirement age has not changed (remained below the established ); 3) indicators of somatic health did not change – (body weight in women, self-esteem of health), others improved (blood pressure), 4) characteristics of physical development worsened: the duration of static balancing decreased (by 13–37%), the duration of breath holding decreased by inhalation, 5) in working individuals the biological age has increased, and the biological aging index has increased, in women – at the level of a trend, in men – reliably (by 3.9–8 years 6) in non-working pensioners-chronicles there was no increase in the rate of biological aging.

scholarly journals Personal characteristics affecting the biological age of the individual

2021 ◽  
Vol 284 ◽  
pp. 09008
Author(s):  
Tatiana Berezina ◽  
Kirill Buzanov
Keyword(s):  
Pension Reform ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Biological Age ◽  
Biological Aging ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Input Variables ◽  
Life Path ◽  
The Individual

The aim of the research is to study the influence of personality traits and the life path on the rate of biological aging of adults, depending on their gender and age. Methods: diagnostic (questioning the life path, self-esteem of personality, determination of biological age) and statistical (automatic neural networks). Subjects: 987 people (including 575 women) aged 35-70 years from various regions of the Russian Federation. Continuous target variable: relative biological aging of the organism (Biological Age – Proper Biological Age). Continuous input variables: indicators of life path and personality self-esteem. Results: the general factors influencing the rate of biological aging were identified: negative factors that enhance aging - addictions and overwork; and positive factors that slow down aging are having children and professionalization. Personal indicators that changed their sign after a person retired were also found. Women changed their sign from negative to positive for indicators “work at the present time” and “study at the present time”, for men – “a positive attitude to pension reform” and professional activities of the types “Human-Technology”, “Human-Sign”. The negative strategies of organizing the life path leading to the acceleration of biological aging are highlighted: “forming the addictions and striving for excesses” and “multiplication of the load”. Positive strategies are also highlighted: “positive activity strategy” (for women and men of retirement age) and “family strategy” (for men of pre-retirement age).

scholarly journals Autobiographical and biopsychological indicators of life satisfaction of the persons of pre-retirement age

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-50
Author(s):  
Vadim Pavlovich Melnik
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
Chronic Fatigue ◽  
Biological Age ◽  
Life Assessment ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
The Future ◽  
Life Path

The subject of this research is the correlation between the indicator of life satisfaction as a cognitive-affective construct of human psyche, certain scales that reflect the respondents’ perception of a temporal project of life (such parameters  as orientation towards the future, fatalistic present, hedonistic present), which reflect the cognitive component of life assessment and various parameters of the life path of a person, such as self-esteem of activity throughout life, career success, material well-being, indicators of overall activity, optimism, parental status and/or presence of dependents, presence of intellectual or sport hobbies, strategies of cooperation/individualism, determined in the course of the game “Dilemma of the Prisoner”, scales of depressive symptoms and severity of chronic fatigue syndrome, and ratio of the biological age index to appropriate biological age as an indicator of the difference between normal and individual level of aging in the age group, and indicator of psychological age and personal maturity that reflect the assessment of self-realization and the adequacy of mental state to physical state respectively. The author’s special contribution to this research consists in the establishment of correlation between the indicators of life satisfaction and cognitive assessment of the parameters of life path, such as overall activity throughout life, optimism, strategies of cooperation and partnership with the surrounding people, orientation towards the future relative to time-related project of life, and establishment of inverse connection with orientation towards the present regardless of the emotional coloring of such perception. The biological parameters of individual aging among persons of pre-retirement age play lesser role than the assessment of the reflected on current life situation. However, the author determines significant negative associations between the manifestation of depressive symptoms and the severity of chronic fatigue syndrome and life satisfaction.

scholarly journals Accelerated aging and psychological age of an individual as risk factors for COVID-19 complications

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-32
Author(s):  
Tatyana N. Berezina ◽  
Elizaveta A. Yakovats ◽  
Yuliya F. Faskhutdinova ◽  
Stanislav A. Rybtsov
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Accelerated Aging ◽  
Biological Indicators ◽  
Biological Age ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Expected Retirement Age

Objectives to study the effect of psychological age on the risk of severe forms of Covid-19 in adults. Material and methods. Research method: natural experiment. The 1st measurement: indicators of biopsychological age - mid-2020, the 2nd measurement: assessment of Covid-19 disease - the end of 2020. Subjects: 239 people aged 35-70 (155 women). Methods for assessing psychological age, expected retirement age, biological age, and analysis of variance were used. Results. Indicators of the relative psychological age of an individual affect the development of the disease and its severity, while the combination of low indicators of psychological age with high biological indicators is most dangerous and increases the likelihood of developing severe forms of the disease.

Biological age and rates of aging of patients with vibration disease and bilateral sensorineural hearing loss

2020 ◽  
pp. 624-624
Author(s):  
S. I. Ereniev ◽  
O. V. Plotnikova
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing Loss ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing ◽  
Biological Age ◽  
Biological Aging ◽  
Vibration Disease ◽  
Bilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Biological age and rates of aging of patients with vibration disease and bilateral sensorineural hearing loss were studied. The biological age of patients exceeded the calendar age by an average of 7.36±0.36 years and the proper biological age by 10.79±0.72 years. The rate of biological aging of the examined patients was 1.14±0.08 times higher than the rate of aging of their healthy peers.

scholarly journals Predictors of Biological Age: The Implications for Wellness and Aging Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 233372142110464
Author(s):  
Trevor Lohman ◽  
Gurinder Bains ◽  
Lee Berk ◽  
Everett Lohman
Keyword(s):  
Dna Methylation ◽  
Lifestyle Modification ◽  
Biological Age ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Biological Aging ◽  
Clinical Value ◽  
Aging Research ◽  
Mortality And Morbidity ◽  
Morbidity Risk ◽  
Pharmaceutical Interventions

As healthspan and lifespan research breakthroughs have become more commonplace, the need for valid, practical markers of biological age is becoming increasingly paramount. The accessibility and affordability of biological age predictors that can reveal information about mortality and morbidity risk, as well as remaining years of life, has profound clinical and research implications. In this review, we examine 5 groups of aging biomarkers capable of providing accurate biological age estimations. The unique capabilities of these biomarkers have far reaching implications for the testing of both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions designed to slow or reverse biological aging. Additionally, the enhanced validity and availability of these tools may have increasingly relevant clinical value. The authors of this review explore those implications, with an emphasis on lifestyle modification research, and provide an overview of the current evidence regarding 5 biological age predictor categories: Telomere length, composite biomarkers, DNA methylation “epigenetic clocks,” transcriptional predictors of biological age, and functional age predictors.

scholarly journals Biological Age Prediction From Wearable Device Movement Data Identifies Nutritional and Pharmacological Interventions for Healthy Aging

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca L. McIntyre ◽  
Mizanur Rahman ◽  
Siva A. Vanapalli ◽  
Riekelt H. Houtkooper ◽  
Georges E. Janssens
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Biological Age ◽  
Wearable Device ◽  
Biological Aging ◽  
Accelerometer Data ◽  
Pharmacological Interventions ◽  
C Elegans ◽  
Movement Data ◽  
Age Related

Intervening in aging processes is hypothesized to extend healthy years of life and treat age-related disease, thereby providing great benefit to society. However, the ability to measure the biological aging process in individuals, which is necessary to test for efficacy of these interventions, remains largely inaccessible to the general public. Here we used NHANES physical activity accelerometer data from a wearable device and machine-learning algorithms to derive biological age predictions for individuals based on their movement patterns. We found that accelerated biological aging from our “MoveAge” predictor is associated with higher all-cause mortality. We further searched for nutritional or pharmacological compounds that associate with decelerated aging according to our model. A number of nutritional components peak in their association to decelerated aging later in life, including fiber, magnesium, and vitamin E. We additionally identified one FDA-approved drug associated with decelerated biological aging: the alpha-blocker doxazosin. We show that doxazosin extends healthspan and lifespan in C. elegans. Our work demonstrates how a biological aging score based on relative mobility can be accessible to the wider public and can potentially be used to identify and determine efficacy of geroprotective interventions.

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