Great Desire for Extended Life and Health amongst the American Public

People want to live long, healthy lives. Previous surveys suggest very limited interest in much longer lifespans, but we show that stipulating good health changes responses to favor longer lives by an order of magnitude. Advances in aging research hold out hope for greatly slowed aging with associat...

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Autores principales: Donner, Yoni, Fortney, Kristen, Calimport, Stuart R. G., Pfleger, Karl, Shah, Munjal, Betts-LaCroix, Joe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
Materias:
Genetics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4718974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26834780
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2015.00353
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Sumario:People want to live long, healthy lives. Previous surveys suggest very limited interest in much longer lifespans, but we show that stipulating good health changes responses to favor longer lives by an order of magnitude. Advances in aging research hold out hope for greatly slowed aging with associated good health. Understanding the public's desires correctly is important to avoid misallocation of resources for research.

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