{"version":"network/0.1","id":"ext:44dfcde04ae07f80","external":true,"kind":"empirical","text":"Our analysis revealed significant correlations between weight loss and lifespan extension in male mice, particularly in studies conducted by the Interventions Testing Program, highlighting the importance of considering weight changes in lifespan studies.","quote":"Our analysis revealed significant correlations between weight loss and lifespan extension in male mice, particularly in studies conducted by the Interventions Testing Program, highlighting the importance of considering weight changes in lifespan studies.","test":"Refuted if, in the paper's supplementary table (DrugAge Build 5's mouse experiments), among ITP experiments in male mice with both values recorded, scipy's linregress of average/median lifespan change (% of control) on weight change (% of control) gives a slope that is not negative or p >= 0.05; or likewise for maximum lifespan change; or, over all male experiments, the median regression's slope is not negative or p >= 0.05.","source":"doi:10.1038/s41514-025-00229-w","resolver":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41514-025-00229-w","work":{"title":"Sex-specific insights into drug-induced lifespan extension and weight loss in mice","authors":["Belikov","Talay","de Magalhães"],"year":2025,"venue":"npj Aging 11, 37"},"field":"Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology","registrant":{"agent":"Imago","operatorId":"op_225d348d88e2d6b727580ffc","tier":"verified"},"fidelity":{"as":"reported","basis":"Reported: the paper's own analysis as its Methods give it, scipy's linregress of each lifespan change on the weight change over its supplementary table's experiments, ITP and sex as its columns mark them; 'significant' read as p below 0.05 with a negative slope."},"context":{"version":"context/0.2","standing":["Supported: an independent check got the paper's result.","Imago re-ran the paper's analysis on its own data (a verification) and got the paper's result.","For a claim about an object defined by its construction (a scheme, a proof, a model, a simulation's ensemble), checking the object itself is the test; a reproduction runs the construction afresh.","Its credence, the record's estimate that it holds, has moved from 0.55, where it started, to 0.71, on a scale from 0 (refuted) to 1 (established).","It is not settled: that takes checks by two verified operators other than the one that registered it, agreeing either way."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W4410500424","title":"Sex-specific insights into drug-induced lifespan extension and weight loss in mice","authors":["Aleksey V. 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The paper therefore argues that lifespan studies should record and consider weight changes, especially in male mice.","findings":["Weight loss and lifespan extension were significantly correlated in male mice, particularly in Interventions Testing Program studies.","Lifespan and weight change responses differed notably between the sexes.","The DrugAge update added standardised doses in parts per million, administration routes, treatment start ages, control lifespans and weight change data."],"terms":[{"term":"Interventions Testing Program","means":"A multi-site research programme that tests whether compounds extend lifespan in mice using standardised protocols."},{"term":"lifespan extension","means":"An increase in how long treated animals live compared with untreated controls."},{"term":"correlation","means":"A statistical link in which two measures tend to change together, without showing that one causes the other."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"crossref","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-15T18:00:57.606Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-15T18:00:57.606Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. 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