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Aging and the decline in health

2010-01-01

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The biological reasons for aging are now understood. Aging is the result of multiple stochastic events in molecules, cells, tissues and organs. These together produce the aged phenotype, senescence and ultimately death. Many of these changes can be directly linked to specific age-associated disease. However, there are also age-related changes that are not pathological. It can be said that aging has multiple causes...

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Literature Corpus work
b3c88d64-db3e-5552-8a1f-e07432e36ef1
DOI
10.4236/health.2010.26092
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