Youth prolonged old age postponed /

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主要作者: Weale, R. A. (Robert Alexander)
企业作者: ebrary, Inc
格式: 电子 电子书
语言:英语
出版: London : Hackensack, NJ : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co., c2010.
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书本目录:
  • 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.