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Healthy aging: The ultimate preventative medicine | Science

Healthy aging: The ultimate preventative medicine | Science



Healthy aging: The ultimate preventative medicine

Science  04 Dec 2015:
Vol. 350, Issue 6265, pp. 1191-1193
DOI: 10.1126/science.aad3267

Abstract

Age is the greatest risk factor for nearly every major cause of mortality in developed nations. Despite this, most biomedical research focuses on individual disease processes without much consideration for the relationships between aging and disease. Recent discoveries in the field of geroscience, which aims to explain biological mechanisms of aging, have provided insights into molecular processes that underlie biological aging and, perhaps more importantly, potential interventions to delay aging and promote healthy longevity. Here we describe some of these advances, along with efforts to move geroscience from the bench to the clinic. We also propose that greater emphasis should be placed on research into basic aging processes, because interventions that slow aging will have a greater effect on quality of life compared with disease-specific approaches

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