Immune Aging is an Independent Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease
Erik Feldman, Everton J. Santana, Bettia E. Celestin, Nadav Golden, Shadi P. Bagherzadeh, Sofia Maysel-Auslender, Kavita Mathi, Sarah Short, Megan Caroll, Shannon S. Sullivan, Martin Lukačišin, Xuhuai Ji, Yuval Klein, Oren Caspi, Patricia Kim Phuong Nguyen, , Shai S. Shen-Orr
The paper introduces IMM-AGE, a metric of immune-aging, and shows it independently predicts cardiovascular disease risk across multiple cohorts.
bioRxiv · Sep 6, 2026 · PreprintImmunology