Lucence Launches AgeQ Biological Age Test, Linking Smoking to 3.6 Extra Years in Asian Cohort
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Updated · The Straits Times · Aug 11
Lucence Launches AgeQ Biological Age Test, Linking Smoking to 3.6 Extra Years in Asian Cohort
1 articles · Updated · The Straits Times · Aug 11
Summary
AgeQ, launched about six weeks ago and introduced publicly on Aug. 11, is the first biological age test built on Asian cohort data and is already offered by private healthcare providers including IHH Healthcare.
More than 5,400 Singaporeans tracked for over a decade in NUS' Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies showed smokers had biological ages 3.6 years older and obese individuals 4.2 years older than healthier peers.
The same dataset linked frequent exercise to a biological age about 1.25 years younger and plant-food intake to roughly one year younger, giving the blood-biomarker test a lifestyle-based health management angle.
Lucence said the model was developed with NUS and A*Star, validated with data from more than 300,000 people in the US and UK, and will be refined further as user data grows.
The launch lands as Singapore confronts rapid ageing, after committing S$350 million to longevity research; Lucence also plans to add biomarkers for age-related cardiovascular disease and cancer risk.