SLEEP Advances
The Association of Sleep Health with Epigenetic Aging in Early Adolescence: Exploratory Insights from the HOME Study
Abstract Study Objectives Sleep during adolescence may influence biological aging, yet few studies have examined this association using objective sleep measures. We examined the associations between accelerometry-based sleep characteristics and epigenetic age (EA), epigenetic age acceleration (EAA), and the pace of biological aging. Methods For this preliminary analysis, we used data from the HOME Study (Cincinnati, OH). At age 12 years (2016-2019), we used accelerometers to assess total sleep time, sleep efficienc …