Title:	Aging and Aging-Related Diseases
Authors:	Zhao Wang IRUN R. COHEN
Keywords:	Aging
Issue Date:	2018
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	In humans, aging is ineluctable as well as inexorable. That is really mysterious, because from a biological viewpoint there is no reason why aging should happen. Aging is stranger and more fearful than death, because death is, we could say, for the renewal of the world. Why we could not live healthily to 100 or 150 years old and die suddenly without getting aging or bearing aging-related diseases really puzzle us for centuries and even now. Maybe someday we all can pass away in our bed with no aging and no diseases. But at any rate, every day you get older. So we must face aging and aging-related diseases now, because they have been becoming severe global health problems with the gradual extension of the average life expectancy of human beings. Although the scientific study of aging started around 100 years ago, we do not have clear answers to some essential questions in this field, for example, what is aging, why we age, and how we age. We have even been debating on whether aging is a disease. Though aging changes are manifested from the molecular to the individual level and from internal to external, no biological biomarkers, diagnostical standards, or therapeutical medications on aging are clearly found or established. But everybody indeed gets older every day with some aging characteristics sooner or later. We live in a strange world where people are aging and mortal. Though it is not possible to prevent aging, or to reverse aging now, we can intervene in aging, delay the aging process, and reduce the incidence of aging-related diseases. Recently the papers related to aging research increase exponentially, and aging is becoming a hot topic in life science. This book aims to provide with an overview of recent advances in the study of aging and aging-related diseases. It discusses the topics at different levels, from systems to molecules, including cohort, individual, organs, tissues, cells, as well as related proteins and genes. The book also covers the studies on possible biomarkers of aging and antiaging interventions. Of course, our focus is not only to extend biological life span of human beings but also improve the living quality as aging. It is still quite difficult to extend the absolute life span now, but we all are trying our best to make everyone live longer with fewer indispositions. We firmly believe that although death is inevitable, aging can be postponed, attenuated, or even reversed.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/55155
ISBN:	978-981-13-1117-8
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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