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Healthy ageing: ageing safely [PDF]
European Heart Journal Supplements, 2001 The population of the developed world is steadily ageing. In the European Union, approximately 22% of persons are over 60 years of age and this is projected to increase to more than 27% by the year 2020. This has major implications for health care resources and the productive workforce. Ageing is accompanied by a decline in the physiological reserve of
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Heterogeneity in Healthy Aging [PDF]
The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 2013 For a surprisingly large segment of the older population, chronological age is not a relevant marker for understanding, measuring, or experiencing healthy aging. Using the 2003 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and the 2004 Health and Retirement Study to examine the proportion of Americans exhibiting five markers of health and the variation in health ...
David J, Lowsky +3 more
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Plasma lipidome is dysregulated in Alzheimer’s disease and is associated with disease risk genes
Translational Psychiatry, 2021 Lipidomics research could provide insights of pathobiological mechanisms in Alzheimer’s disease. This study explores a battery of plasma lipids that can differentiate Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients from healthy controls and determines whether lipid ...
Yue Liu +8 more
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The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2014 China has aged rapidly and the rate is accelerating in decades to come. We review positive and negative forces for healthy aging in China now and in the future. The most positive force is the spectacular growth in education over time especially for Chinese women, which should improve all dimensions of cognitive and physical health and eliminate vast ...
James P, Smith +2 more
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Molecular Systems Biology, 2011 FoxO transcription factors, inhibited by insulin/insulin‐like growth factor signalling (IIS), are crucial players in numerous organismal processes including lifespan.
Nazif Alic +9 more
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A parthenogenetic quasi-program causes teratoma-like tumors during aging in wild-type C. elegans
npj Aging and Mechanisms of Disease, 2018 Aging: Runaway programs are a cause of aging The main cause of disease worldwide is aging, a process long suspected to result from damage accumulation.
Hongyuan Wang +13 more
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BMC Geriatrics, 2018 Background Myostatin, its inhibitor follistatin, and growth/differentiation factor 11 (GDF11) have been proposed as factors that could potentially modify biological aging.
Elizaveta Fife +8 more
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International Journal of Population Data ScienceIntroduction Accurate identification of Aged Care residents accessing hospital services is challenging due to multiple hospital Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems and entry points resulting in inconsistent addresses and coding.
Tanya Ravipati +6 more
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BMC Biology, 2020 Background The increasing age of global populations highlights the urgent need to understand the biological underpinnings of ageing. To this end, inhibition of the insulin/insulin-like signalling (IIS) pathway can extend healthy lifespan in diverse ...
Nathaniel S. Woodling +4 more
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Fall awareness behaviour and its associated factors among community dwelling older adults
BMC Geriatrics, 2021 Background Falls are one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in older adults. However, despite adoption of prevention strategies, the number of falls in older adults has not declined.
Jing Wen Goh +4 more
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