Attitudes to ageing, biomarkers of ageing and mortality: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

Objective To investigate whether people with more positive attitudes to ageing are biologically younger as defined by leucocyte telomere length, accelerated DNA methylation GrimAge (AgeAccelGrim) and brain-predicted age difference, and whether these biomarkers explain relationships between attitudes to ageing and mortality. Methods We used linear regression to examine cross-sectionally attitudes to ageing (measured using the Attitudes to Ageing...