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Feeling good in old age: factors explaining health-related quality of life [PDF]
Health Qual Life Outcomes, 2018 BackgroundSustained growth in longevity raises questions as to why some individuals report a good quality of life in older ages, while others seem to suffer more markedly the effects of natural deterioration.
M. Alcañiz, Aïda Solé-Auró
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Age factors in sex differences in open-field activity of rats [PDF]
, 1976 Fred P. Valle, R. Bols
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Medical Clinics of North America, 2012 The risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) is generally dependent on the presence or absence of traditional risk factors. Age is a well-known traditional risk factor, generally considered nonmodifiable. This review discusses the common use of individual age in prediction of CVD incidence using different risk scores, whether or not age as a ...
Ravi Dhingra, Ramachandran S. Vasan
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Vascular Aging: Facts and Factors [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2012 “Man is as old as his arteries.” This old aphorism has been widely confirmed by epidemiological and observational studies establishing that cardiovascular diseases can be age-related in terms of their onset and progression. Besides, with aging come a number of physiological and morphological changes that alters cardiovascular function and lead to ...
Dantas, A. P. +2 more
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Ageing as a Risk Factor for Disease [PDF]
Current Biology, 2012 Age is the main risk factor for the prevalent diseases of developed countries: cancer, cardiovascular disease and neurodegeneration. The ageing process is deleterious for fitness, but can nonetheless evolve as a consequence of the declining force of natural selection at later ages, attributable to extrinsic hazards to survival: ageing can then occur as
Niccoli, T., Partridge, L.
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Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2020 Importance Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an emerging infectious disease that was first reported in Wuhan, China, and has subsequently spread worldwide.
Chao-min Wu +24 more
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The age factor in Alzheimer’s disease [PDF]
Genome Medicine, 2015 Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia, and it is characterized by a decline in memory or other thinking skills. The greatest risk factor for Alzheimer's disease is advanced age. A recent genome-wide study identified a locus on chromosome 17 associated with the age at onset, and a specific variant in CCL11 is probably responsible for ...
Jose Bras, Rita Guerreiro
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OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19 death in 17 million patients
Nature, 2020 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly affected mortality worldwide1. There is unprecedented urgency to understand who is most at risk of severe outcomes, and this requires new approaches for the timely analysis of large datasets.
E. Williamson +29 more
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Risk factors for progression of age‐related macular degeneration
Ophthalmic & physiological optics, 2020 Age‐related macular degeneration (AMD) is a degenerative disease of the macula, often leading to progressive vision loss. The rate of disease progression can vary among individuals and has been associated with multiple risk factors.
Thomas J. Heesterbeek +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Introduction Older people have been reported to be at higher risk of COVID-19 mortality. This study explored the factors mediating this association and whether older age was associated with increased mortality risk in the absence of other risk factors ...
F. Ho +15 more
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