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Editorial
. 2020 Jul 23;11(4):725-729.
doi: 10.14336/AD.2020.0629. eCollection 2020 Jul.

Geroscience in the Age of COVID-19

Nir Barzilai  1 , James C Appleby  2 , Steven N Austad  3 , Ana Maria Cuervo  1 , Matt Kaeberlein  4 , Christian Gonzalez-Billault  5   6 , Stephanie Lederman  7 , Ilia Stambler  8 , Felipe Sierra  9
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Editorial

Geroscience in the Age of COVID-19

Nir Barzilai et al. Aging Dis. .

Abstract

The data on COVID-19 is clear on at least one point: Older adults are most vulnerable to hospitalization, disability and death following infection with the novel coronavirus. Therefore, therapeutically addressing degenerative aging processes as the main risk factors appears promising for tackling the present crisis and is expected to be relevant when tackling future infections, epidemics and pandemics. Therefore, utilizing a geroscience approach, targeting aging processes to prevent multimorbidity, via initiating broad clinical trials of potential geroprotective therapies, is recommended.

Keywords: COVID-19; aging biomarkers; geroprotectors; geroscience; immunosenescence.

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