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The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 58:B196-B204 (2003)
© 2003 The Gerontological Society of America

Further Evaluation of the Basic Nature of the Human Biological Aging Process Based on a Factor Analysis of Age-related Physiological Variables

Eitaro Nakamura1 and Kenji Miyao2

1 Department of Life Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan.
2 Department of Internal Medicine, The Second Kyoto Red Cross Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.

This study aimed to reexamine whether there exists a primary aging process that controls the rate of aging in a number of different functions. Eighty-six adult males who successively received a 2-day routine health checkup test for 7 years from 1992 to 1998 at the Kyoto Red Cross Hospital were selected as subjects. Nine candidate biomarkers of aging were selected from the 25 physiological variables based on the investigation of age-related changes. A principal factor analysis was applied to the partial correlation matrix for 9 selected biomarkers calculated by controlling for age. Furthermore, a confirmatory factor analysis in testing first- and second-order factor models was applied to the covariance matrix for 9 biomarkers. The results of these factor analyses revealed that there existed one general factor and three system-specific factors. Therefore, biological age changes can be viewed as a time-dependent complex integration of the primary and secondary aging processes.







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