“Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honour their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”

—Maya Angelou.

Recent Findings

Aging is a complex process that leads to changes in all the systems of the body and all the functions of the person; however, aging develops at different rates in different people, and chronological age is not always consistent with biological age. One of the biggest mega trends impacting the world today is population aging. Aging is a topic that has captivated both scientists and philosophers throughout history, but aging as a population scenario emerged on a worldwide scale for the first time in the last century.  Some changes in the heart and blood vessels normally occur with age. However, many other changes that are common with aging are due to or worsened by modifiable factors. If not treated, these can lead to heart disease.

Data from WHO.

Aging and Life Expectancy

Aging and life expectancy are closely related. In a broad sense, determining an individual’s life expectancy is also a way of schematizing his or her aging process. Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth (LEB), its current age and demographic factors including gender [86]. In the last decades, life expectancy has increased in high income country; the rise in human life expectancy has involved declines in intrinsic and extrinsic mortality processes associated, respectively, with senescence and environmental challenges.

In association to this increased longevity, there are diseases called age-related that increase quadratically with age and cause a progressive loss of physical, mental, and cognitive integrities, leading to impaired function and increased vulnerability to morbidity, mortality  and disability, in addition to increasing care needs and age-related burden measured through the sum of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) of these diseases among these adults. Ninety-two of the 293 of the Global Burden of Disease causes were identified as age-related diseases. In particular, cardiovascular disease, neoplasm, and chronic respiratory disorders are those with higher age-related disease burden.

Have your blood pressure checked, and physical check tested specifically if you have diabetes, heart disease, kidney problems, or certain other conditions, your blood pressure may need to be monitored more closely.

If your cholesterol level is normal, have it rechecked every 2-3 years. If you have diabetes, heart disease, kidney problems, or certain other conditions, your cholesterol may need to be monitored more closely.

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