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. 2016 Dec;22(12):995-996.
doi: 10.1016/j.molmed.2016.09.009. Epub 2016 Oct 25.

A Disease or Not a Disease? Aging As a Pathology

Timothy V Gladyshev  1 , Vadim N Gladyshev  2
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A Disease or Not a Disease? Aging As a Pathology

Timothy V Gladyshev et al. Trends Mol Med. 2016 Dec.

Abstract

The debate on the relationship between aging and disease is centered on whether aging is a normal/natural/physiological process or it represents a pathology. Considering this relationship from medical, molecular, social, and historical perspectives, we argue that aging is neither a disease, nor a non-disease. Instead, it combines all age-related diseases and their preclinical forms, in addition to other pathological changes.

Keywords: aging; disease; pathology.

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