Conditions with chronic immune activation are associated with accelerated aging.

“So which is I you know that's somewhat interesting that was really interesting for me because it means also any conditions where you see a shift in the relative proportion of these cells for example you get an acute COVID infection what happens you have a massive expansion of your uh your your memory tea cells so it looks like you're going to and then you sample and given that these cells look much older than the other ones you're going to look like you're aging and so Um so and there's a whole literature that talks about accelerated aging in rheumatoid arthritis in COVID in HIV all of these conditions that are all associated with chronic immune activation.”