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Disease or not, aging is easily treatable

Is aging a disease? It does not matter because aging is already treated using a combination of several clinically-available drugs, including rapamycin. Whether aging is a disease depends on arbitrary definitions of both disease and aging. For treatment purposes, aging is a deadly disease (or more ge...

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Autor principal: Blagosklonny, Mikhail V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Impact Journals 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6286826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30448823
http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/aging.101647
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Sumario:Is aging a disease? It does not matter because aging is already treated using a combination of several clinically-available drugs, including rapamycin. Whether aging is a disease depends on arbitrary definitions of both disease and aging. For treatment purposes, aging is a deadly disease (or more generally, pre-disease), despite being a normal continuation of normal organismal growth. It must and, importantly, can be successfully treated, thereby delaying classic age-related diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, and neurodegeneration.