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The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 2009 64A(11):1163-1164; doi:10.1093/gerona/glp039
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Call for Papers: Aging Versus Disease

Anne B. Newman1 and Luigi Ferrucci2

1 Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and School of Medicine, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland

Address Correspondence to Anne B. Newman, MD, MPH, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and School of Medicine, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, PA. E-mail: newmana@edc.pitt.edu.

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A long-lasting and extensive literature has conceptualized the aging process as a universal and unavoidable process of physiological decline that is associated with increased global vulnerability to diseases and death. On the contrary, diseases occur in some individuals and not in others, are connected with specific exogenous risk factors and pathophysiological mechanisms, and may not increase the risk for death. These characteristics make diseases preventable (1). As a consequence of this view, efforts to understand aging have emphasized the need to distinguish aging from disease. Indeed, the need . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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