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Because of these characteristics, the eye-region skin serves as a representative indicator reflecting both skin aging and overall health status.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objectives<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study aims to develop and validate a straightforward, non-invasive method to evaluate changes in the eye-region skin as reliable markers of aging and overall physiological condition.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We analyzed facial images from 2,515 Korean women aged 20\u201369 and evaluated various periorbital features, including wrinkles, morphological characteristics, and pigmented spots, using skin measurement devices and computational image analysis techniques. To assess skin aging and health status, we developed age prediction models based on different combinations of these periorbital features for each individual. Subsequently, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was performed to summarize disease history variables for each participant, and the correlation between the first principal component (PC1) and periorbital skin age was evaluated using Pearson correlation analysis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Periorbital skin features showed significant associations with chronological age. We developed nine distinct age prediction models by combining different subsets of these features, each producing a unique aging score. Among them, seven models demonstrated strong correlations with actual age (r &amp;gt; 0.7), confirming their predictive reliability. These individual model outputs were collectively considered as unified aging markers representing periorbital skin age. To evaluate clinical relevance, we analyzed the association between periorbital skin age derived from the model incorporating all skin features and disease history. Periorbital skin age showed significant associations with five out of seven diseases individually, as well as with the PC1 summarizing all disease histories collectively.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study establishes \u2018periorbital skin age\u2019 as a non-invasive biomarker that effectively reflects both the progression of skin aging and underlying medical conditions. 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