Concomitant use of relative telomere length, biological health score and physical/social statuses in the biological aging evaluation of mustard-chemical veterans.

Autor: Nasiri L; Department of Biology, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran., Vaez-Mahdavi MR; Department of Physiology, Medical Faculty, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran; Immunoregulation Research Center, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: vaezmahdavi@shahed.ac.ir., Hassanpour H; Department of Gametes and Cloning, Research Institute of Animal Embryo Technology, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran., Askari N; Immunoregulation Research Center, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran; Department of Biology, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran., Ardestani SK; Immunoregulation Research Center, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran; Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran., Ghazanfari T; Immunoregulation Research Center, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International immunopharmacology [Int Immunopharmacol] 2022 Aug; Vol. 109, pp. 108785. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 May 06.
DOI: 10.1016/j.intimp.2022.108785
Abstrakt: Sulfur mustard (SM) is a toxic gas that has been used as a chemical weapon in wars. After many years, SM-exposed people are still suffering from its side effects such as biological and premature aging. This study was aimed to evaluate biological aging rate via involving biological health scoring (BHS), relative telomere length (TL) and different physical/social variables i.e. marital and smoking statuses, body mass index, salary and educational levels. BHS was calculated according to measurement of 18 biomarkers related to function of four physiological systems (endocrine, inflammatory, cardiovascular and metabolic systems) and two organs (liver and kidney). The volunteers were 442 individuals exposed to SM gas in 1987 and 119 healthy individuals as non-exposed group. Each group was divided based on leukocyte relative TL (short, intermediate and long). Our data showed an inverse correlation between BHS and relative TL in two groups. The BHS was significantly higher in SM-exposed group than non-exposed group, especially in the participants with short and intermediate TL. The BHS had also a positive correlation with smoking and BMI parameters, and a negative correlation with salary and educational levels in the participants with shorter telomeres; and SM strengthened these correlations in the shorter telomeres. It is concluded that the higher BHS along with shorter relative TL that are indices for lower health quality and biological aging, could be used in the health evaluation of non- and SM-exposed people; and involving of BHS, TL and physical/social covariates could be useful to make this evaluation more accurate.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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