A recent study published in Frontiers in Genetics found that even mild cases of COVID-19 may speed up the body’s rate of aging, although receiving a COVID-19 vaccine might reverse these effects.
In a retrospective, non-randomized study, Florence Comite, MD, a precision medicine clinician-scientist, founder of the Center for Precision Medicine & Health and CEO of Groq Health, and colleagues analyzed DNA methylation states in 21 study participants before and after mild or moderate SARS-CoV-2 infection to investigate how the virus and messenger RNA vaccination might impact methylation