Fascinating study carried out by Baltimore-based artificial intelligence (AI) solutions company ‘Insilico Medicine’, states that smoking tobacco causes premature death as smokers age biologically faster than non-smokers.
A friend your age who smokes is biologically elder than you and well, the struggle is real! To quit smoking might be a herculean task, but the study published in the journal Scientific Reports is now on the role to set an example for generations to not practice smoking.
- Over 70% of smokers under 30 were predicted to be as old as 50,
study showed.
- Blood tests and AI were used to make the predictions of their biological age.
- The methods are more accurate than self-reporting by patients, experts said.
- The results were carried out based on the blood profiles of 149,000 adults.
Polina Mamoshina, Senior Research Scientist at Insilico Medicine said, “Smoking is a real problem that destroys people’s health, causes premature deaths, and is often the cause of many serious diseases.” She included, “We applied artificial intelligence to prove that smoking significantly increases your biological age.”
