Looking for clues about your real age? Your grandparents’ education may offer some insight

Variables included in the current analysis came from the NHLBI Growth and Health study (1987–1997) and the follow-up National Growth and Health Study (NGHS). The combined information resulted in data from three-generation, including grandparents (F0), mothers (F1), and grandchildren (F2). The gray line represents the main goal of the current analysis, to examine the association between grandparents’ educational attainment as a socioeconomic context of mothers’ early rearing on grandchildren’s epigenetic-based age acceleration. The black lines represent the hypothesized mediational model of the pathways from grandparents’ education to grandchildren’s epigenetic age through parental education and mothers’ life course health-related factors (childhood Read More