Social determinants of health and epigenetic clocks: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 140 studies

Descriptive results

Figure 1 presents the workflow of our analysis. Our final meta-analytic dataset consisted of 140 studies, including N = 65,919 unique participants and a total of 1,065 effect sizes derived from 79 unique cohorts drawn from 23 different countries (Supplementary Fig. 1; see…