“Similar to doing an MOT on a car, scientists believe they can run a blood test to check how fast a person’s internal organs are ageing, and even predict which ones might soon fail.

The Stanford University team say they can monitor 11 major body parts, including the heart, brain and lungs.

They tried it on thousands of adults, mostly middle-aged or older.

One in five reasonably healthy adults aged 50-plus might have at least one fast-ageing organ, the results suggest.

And one to two in every 100 might have several organs that test older than their birthday years.

While the idea of the check-up might be scary, it could be an opportunity to intervene and change course, the researchers say.

Knowing which organs are in rapid decline could help reveal what health issues may be looming.”

From BBC.