Re: By what margin do rates of ageing vary

On Oct 15, 5:34 pm, Mark & Steven Bornfeld
<bornfeldm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Iain wrote:

What about the possibility mentioned in my final paragraph? I chose
that question because, knowing how elusive ageing is, I thought a
doctor or gerontologist may be able to confirm *some* known degree of
variation.

~Iain

Well, as anyone 35 or 40 is younger than I (and I'm not a
gerontologist) I'm likely not the person to answer ;-).
I think the crux of your question however, is knowing what you mean by
the words "truly, effectively".
We could probably agree that someone with HBP, type II diabetes and 100
lbs. overweight (let's) throw in smoking is effectively "older" with
regard to degenerative disease and life expectancy than a similar person
who does not have these health handicaps. But when a patient walks into
my office I want to know how old they are, and then I examine them. I
make no clinical presumptions based on age (again, with the exception of
children) until AFTER the exam. After that, of course chronological age
and specific health states of course influence the information gleaned
during an exam.

I'll try to be less ambiguous.

Let's say you're given a 40 year-old man, and you have the unlimited
ability to analyse any aspects of his biology.

If you are then asked to estimate his biological age, by what margin
of error can you possibly be wrong?

~Iain
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