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Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research · Journal article
Cells · September 5, 2026
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This is a narrative review that proposes cellular senescence in blood cells as a mechanistic link connecting metabolic syndrome, inflammaging, and cardiometabolic disease. The work is conceptual and synthesizes existing evidence rather than reporting original data or clinical outcomes, positioning senescence as a hypothesis-generating framework for understanding metabolic disease pathophysiology.
Narrative review. Individuals with metabolic syndrome and cardiometabolic disease; blood cells (hematopoietic stem cells and circulating populations)..
Metabolic syndrome is characterized by central obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and chronic low-grade inflammation, contributing to increased risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and premature mortality. Emerging evidence suggests cellular senescence plays a central role in metabolic syndrome pathophysiology by linking metabolic stress to chronic inflammation, immune dysfunction, and tissue damage. Blood-cell senescence, particularly in hematopoietic stem cells and circulating populations, may initiate and progress metabolic disease through altered immune function and persistent inflammatory activation.
Metabolic syndrome is characterized by central obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and chronic low-grade inflammation, contributing to increased risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and premature mortality.
This review frames senescence and immunosenescence as potential therapeutic targets in metabolic disease but does not provide evidence strong enough to guide clinical practice. Clinicians should regard this as a conceptual framework requiring validation through empirical studies before informing treatment decisions.
A narrative review synthesizing mechanistic evidence and proposing cellular senescence as a unifying link between metabolic syndrome and cardiometabolic disease, without reporting new empirical data or clinical outcomes.
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This review frames senescence and immunosenescence as potential therapeutic targets in metabolic disease but does not provide evidence strong enough to guide clinical practice. Clinicians should regard this as a conceptual framework requiring validation through empirical studies before informing treatment decisions.
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Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a complex metabolic disorder characterized by central obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and chronic low-grade inflammation, all of which contribute to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, and premature mortality. Emerging evidence suggests that cellular senescence plays a central role in the pathophysiology of MetS by linking metabolic stress to chronic inflammation, immune dysfunction, as well as cell and tissue damage. Although senescence has traditionally been studied in tissue-resident cells, growing attention has focused on the role of blood-cell senescence in the initiation and progression of metabolic disease. This review summarizes current knowledge regarding the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving senescence in hematopoietic stem cells and circulating blood-cells (BCs) and how these mechanisms affect specific blood-cell populations leading to altered immune function, impaired tissue homeostasis, and persistent inflammatory activation. The link between clonal hematopoiesis to immunosenescence and cardiometabolic disease is also highlighted, providing additional insight into the complex interactions between hematopoietic aging and metabolic dysfunction.
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