{
  "id": 1818158,
  "title": "Scales and a measuring tape can predict future illness better than expensive biological age tests",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/scales-and-a-measuring-tape-can-predict-future-illness-better-than",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-18T22:20:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-scales-tape-future-illness-expensive.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Traditional disease risk factors that are inexpensive and easy to measure, such as body mass index, waist-to-hip ratio, smoking and alcohol consumption, outperform biological age tests based on epigenetics as predictors of future disease, finds a study conducted at Tampere University.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}