Youth prolonged [electronic resource] : old age postponed / Robert Weale.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Imperial College Press ; Hackensack, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co., c2010.Description: xii, 134 p. : illOther title:- Old age postponed
- 612.68 22
- QP85 .W38 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-130) and index.
What's the problem? -- Language as a barrier: "I can't hear you" -- Dress and appearance: disguising the years; failure? -- Digging up the past; or, Where do we come from?: Were our ancestors healthier than we are? -- Ageing factors: More about appearance: tell-tale signs - sun, smiles and smoking -- Guessing by experts -- More about the skin, posture and bones -- Biomarkers; or, The countdown to the end - men and women, life-expectancy -- The eyes have it -- Thought for food -- Why do we age? Is it a matter of biological economics -- Elements -- Some age-related diseases: risk factors - Alzheimer's disease, bones, cancers, heart, Parkinson's, stroke -- The end of ageing -- What can we do about all this? -- Old age -- Biomarkers -- The menopause -- Age in the distant past -- How does human ageing fit into the animal scheme? -- From end to start.
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