Immune Resilience: The Key to Longevity and Infection Resistance
Researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio have developed a unique set of metrics to quantify the level of immune resilience, which is the capacity to resist or recover from infections and other sources of inflammatory stress. The laboratory tests developed to assess levels of immune resilience were evaluated in nearly 50,000 persons of differing ages and types of challenges to their immune systems. The researchers found that individuals with optimal levels of immune resilience were more likely to live longer, resist HIV and influenza infections, resist AIDS, resist recurrence of skin cancer after kidney transplant, survive COVID-19 infection, and survive sepsis.