Heart-health measures linked to distinct blood chemical patterns

They also developed “metabolic age,” an age estimate based on those chemicals. Among adults aged 65 or older, each additional year of metabolic age relative to actual age was associated with a higher relative rate of major adverse events (hazard ratio 1.10), after accounting for other measured factors. This outcome combined cardiovascular events and death from any cause. The association with cardiovascular disease events alone was less clear. Over an average 10.2 years, 6.7% of the full cohort had cardiovascular disease events and 12.8% had major adverse events.