Inflammaging – the role of inflammation in the aging process

Aging is associated with a number of chronic diseases – cardiovascular disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and cancer. They are all part of the process of immunosenescence. The chronic inflammation that is a feature of the declining efficiency of geriatric immune systems has a deleterious effect on normal metabolic and hormonal signaling, is increased […]

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