(Washington Post via Yahoo!) – How old are your organs? The answer might not match your chronological age – and a new analysis finds that an organ’s biological age might predict a person’s risk of diseases such as cancer, dementia and heart disease.

The research, published in the Lancet Digital Health, analyzed data from Whitehall II, a long-running British study of aging that has followed over 10,000 British adults for more than 35 years. Between 1997 and 1999, the Whitehall study took blood plasma samples from participants when they were 45 to 69 years old. (Read More)