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Age-Related Diseases as Vicious Cycles
2017-04-18
Abstract excerpt
Age-related diseases (ARDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide, and contribute to 90% of mortality in developed countries. Interestingly, the mortality rates of individual ARDs increase exponentially with age. Processes described by the exponential growth function typically involve a branching chain reaction or, more generally, a positive feedback loop. Here I propose that each ARD is mediated by one or seve...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 69e6aa56-d181-5207-8051-02961e22ff2c
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints201704.0102.v1