Abstract
The Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Chair of Aging Research, Professor of Medicine and Molecular Genetics; Director, Institute for Aging Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA; Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center and B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; and Office of the Chief Physician, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel
Highlights
Causes of mortality were separated into malignant diseases, acute myocardial infarction, other ischemic heart diseases, other forms of heart diseases, cerebrovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, respiratory diseases, diseases of kidney, infectious diseases, all external causes, signs/symptoms and ill-defined conditions, and all other diseases
Even if all cardiovascular disease were to be eliminated, the expected impact would be an additional 2.87 years of life.[2]. Explaining this in part is that cardiovascular disease can be prevented by drugs, and patients have been saved by interventions such as coronary vessel stenting and by-pass surgery
An intuitive question to ask is: Do we humans age at different rates? This is a question I have asked thousands of laypeople and scientists during lectures including during the Barzilai Symposium on Aging held at Rambam Health Care Campus in March 2011
Summary
Causes of mortality were separated into malignant diseases, acute myocardial infarction, other ischemic heart diseases, other forms of heart diseases, cerebrovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, respiratory diseases, diseases of kidney, infectious diseases, all external causes, signs/symptoms and ill-defined conditions, and all other diseases. Acknowledgements: Dr Barzilai’s work on CR and hormones is supported by grants (Glenn Center for the Biology of Human Aging, R01 AG 618381, P01 AG 021654, and the Einstein Nathan Shock Center P30AG038072).
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