People of Hispanic ancestry have higher risks for diabetes and metabolic syndrome but age more slowly according to the epigenetic clock.

“unfortunately hispanics often have higher risk for diabetes the higher metabolic syndrome and however according to the epigenetic clock they actually age more slowly you know and um so so this is really this disconnect and um and this is actually an interesting disconnect because there's something known as a hispanic mortality paradox you know hispanics as i mentioned have often a disadvantageous risk profile according to clinical biomarkers but it turns out on average they live much longer than expected they actually live longer lives than people of european ancestry you know and that association is paradoxical to a clinician who looks at clinical biomarkers but according to the epigenetic clock it's not paradoxical because as i mentioned we have found that hispanics age more slowly according to the epigenetic clock”