Demography of Centenarians According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, in 2010, approximately 51,000 people aged 100 years and older collected Social Security benefits. The U.S. census reported a similar number of 53,364 and an overall prevalence of 1.73 centenarians/10,000…
Biogerontology, the field of biologic aging research, is the final biomedical research frontier. The sequencing of the human genome and advancements in molecular technology have provided enormous potential for regenerative medicine. The list of readily replaceable body parts (e.g., eye…
Introduction According to Wikipedia, epidemiology is defined as “the science that studies the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations.” Epidemiology was first concerned with epidemics of infectious diseases when these were the main cause…
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