Open AccessEarly-Life Intelligence Predicts Midlife Biological Age
Author(s) -
Jonathan D. Schaefer,
Avshalom Caspi,
Daniel W. Belsky,
HonaLee Harrington,
Renate Houts,
Salomon Israel,
Morgan E. Levine,
Karen Sugden,
Benjamin Williams,
Richie Poulton,
Terrie E. Moffitt
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the journals of gerontology series b
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1758-5368
pISSN - 1079-5014
DOI - 10.1093/geronb/gbv035
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology
Early-life intelligence has been shown to predict multiple causes of death in populations around the world. This finding suggests that intelligence might influence mortality through its effects on a general process of physiological deterioration (i.e., individual variation in "biological age"). We examined whether intelligence could predict measures of aging at midlife before the onset of most age-related disease.
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