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Antioxidant and Age-Related Diseases
Aging is one of the key contributors to a broad spectrum of chronic diseases. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) increase oxidative stress in cells and...
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Age-Related Decline in the Central Circadian Clock
Disruptions in normal circadian rhythms and sleep cycles are effects of aging and profoundly affect health. The circadian clock that regulates these...
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Implications of Inflammation in Aging and Age-Related Diseases
Research evidence has indicated that increasing numbers of elderly are suffering from age-related diseases such as neurodegenerative disease,...
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The Role of Antioxidants in Longevity and Age-Related Diseases
The average life expectancy has increased worldwide in the recent decades. This has presented new challenges as old age brings the onset of diseases...
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The Role of Antioxidant on Health and Age-Related Diseases in Aging
Substantial studies have suggested that natural compounds rich in antioxidants can enhance the immune system and decrease oxidative stress. These...
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Migration-related inequalities in loneliness across age groups: a cross-national comparative study in Europe
This study aims to contribute to the growing interest in the consequences of migration for loneliness by investigating the role of generational...
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Evolution of the income-related gap in health with old age: evidence from 20 countries in European and Chinese panel datasets
Some studies show that the protective effect of higher income on health weakens with old age (age-as-leveller pattern), whereas others show that it strengthens...
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Chronic Inflammation as an Underlying Mechanism of Ageing and Ageing-Related Diseases
Age-related chronic inflammation is characterized as the unresolved low-grade inflammatory process underlying the ageing process and various...
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Emerging Trends of Chronic Diseases and Their Care Among Older Persons Globally
The global aging population (aged 60 years and above) has been rising, and it is expected to reach 2.1 billion in 2050. Along with the aging...
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Associations between diabetes mellitus and subsequent non-communicable diseases in Indonesia
ObjectiveTo understand how diabetes mellitus (DM) diagnosed at different ages of adulthood are associated with various incident subsequent...
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Age-Related Oxidative Stress-Induced Redox Imbalance
Aging is the progressive manifestation of increased cellular damage with age. The process of aging is complex and can be described in several...
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The Impact of the Pandemic on Health and Quality of Life of Informal Caregivers of Older People: Results from a Cross-National European Survey in an Age-Related Perspective
During the COVID-19 outbreak, the care services interruption/delay resulted in increased amount of care for informal caregivers of older people with...
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The Exposome and the Social Sciences: The Case of Systemic Diseases
This chapter discusses the challenges of an epistemological pluralism. It assesses the tensions internal to the exposome as part of a longer history...
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Cognitive and non-cognitive variables influencing age-related effect of mind wandering across the adult life span
This study aimed to assess the effects of aging on mind wandering (MW) using a sustained attention to response task (SART) with a low cognitive...
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Noncommunicable Diseases in the Elderly
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) accounted for 73.4% of mortality in the world in 2017. In India, NCDs account for 63% of mortality. Cardiovascular...
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Comparative Analysis on Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases on Catastrophic Spending and Impoverishment in Tanzania
The question of whether communicable or non-communicable diseases have higher economic effects on households is rarely explored from the global to...
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Age-Related Changes in Central Nervous System 5-Hydroxytryptamine Signalling and Its Potential Effects on the Regulation of Lifespan
Serotonin or 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) is an important neurotransmitter in the central nervous system and the periphery. Most 5-HT (~99%) is found...
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Reference values for Jamar+ digital dynamometer hand grip strength in healthy adults and in adults with non-communicable diseases or osteoarthritis: the Norwegian Tromsø study 2015–2016
Hand grip strength (HGS) is a key indicator of intrinsic capacity and has shown good predictive ability for morbidity and mortality. Reference values...
