Predicting the incidence of age-related diseases based on biological age: The 11-year national health examination data follow-up.

Purpose: As the population ages rapidly, the incidence of age-related diseases (ARDs) is also increasing fast. Predicting the incidence of ARDs is a challenge since the rates of individual aging vary, and objective assessments of the stages of aging based on chronological age (CA) may be inaccurate. Thus, in this study, we developed a biological age (BA) model based on the National Health Examination (NHE) data and analyzed the model prediction results for the incidence of 16 ARDs.