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Aging and Human Longevity (Paperback, 1996 ed.)
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Aging and Human Longevity (Paperback, 1996 ed.)
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The proportion of elderly people continues to increase in the
western world-nearly a quarter of the population will be over 65
years by the year 2050. Since aging is accompanied by an increase
in diseases and by a deterioration in well-being, finding solutions
to these social, medical and psychological problems is necessarily
a major goal for society. Scientists and medical practitioners are
therefore faced with the urgent task of increasing basic knowledge
of the biological processes that cause aging. More resources must
be put into this research in order to achieve better understanding
of the cellular mechanisms that underlie the differences in life
span between species and to answer the difficult questions of why
some individuals age more quickly than others, and why some develop
liver problems, some have heart problems, and others brain
problems. The results of such a wide program of research will
provide important information about the causes of many
life-threatening and/ or debilitating diseases of old age; it will
help find ways to prevent some of the ailments that result from
aging, and it may well lead to discoveries enabling the
prolongation of human life.
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