Pace of Aging in HRS (HRSPoA)

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The document describes a contributed dataset- Pace of Aging in the HRS. The analysis to produce the dataset is described in in Balachandran et al., 2025 Nature Aging¹. Analysis code is available on GitHub. Briefly, we modeled Pace of Aging from longitudinal data collected during 2006-2016 on glycated hemoglobin (HbA1C), C-reactive protein (CRP), cystatin-C, peak flow, waist-circumference, diastolic blood pressure, gait speed, grip strength, and balance according to the method introduced in Belsky et al. 2015 PNAS ².

References

1. Balachandran, A., Pei, H., Shi, Y., Beard, J. R., Caspi, A., Cohen, A. A., ... & Belsky, D.W. (2025). Pace of Aging analysis of healthspan and lifespan in older adults in the US and UK. Nature aging, 1-11.

2. Belsky, D. W. et al. Quantification of biological aging in young adults. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 112, E4104–E4110 (2015).