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Ageing makes us dyslexic [PDF]
Background: The effects of typical ageing on spoken language are well known: word production is disproportionately affected while syntactic processing is relatively well preserved.
Harley, Trevor A. +3 more
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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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Healthy Aging as Disease? [PDF]
In the scientific and popular literature recently there has been a widespread call for classifying normal aging as a disease, a condition that can be “manipulated, treated, and delayed” (Gems, 2010; Kelland, 2010). The main argument given by supporters of this suggestion is that grant-awarding bodies would be more likely to fund research into how, when,
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A parthenogenetic quasi-program causes teratoma-like tumors during aging in wild-type C. elegans
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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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
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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Cardiovascular disease and healthy ageing [PDF]
Cardiovascular diseases are main cause of morbidity and mortality in the Western World. Cardiovascular disease increases in its prevalence with age and the burden of this condition is set to increase with an Ageing global population.
Mc Auley, Mark T., Mooney, Kathleen M.
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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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Determinants Of Healthy Ageing For Older People In European Countries – A Spatio-Temporal Approach [PDF]
The article aims to investigate the relationship between the length of the further life in healthy for men and women aged 65 years and selected factors in European countries in the period 2005-2012.
Suchecka, Jadwiga, Urbaniak, Bogusława
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Nutrition, diet and immunosenescence [PDF]
Ageing is characterized by immunosenescence and the progressive decline in immunity in association with an increased frequency of infections and chronic disease.
Agrawal +217 more
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