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Youth prolonged : old age postponed / Robert Weale.
- Title
- Youth prolonged : old age postponed / Robert Weale.
- Author
- Weale, R. A. (Robert Alexander)
- Publication
- London : Imperial College Press, c2010.
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- Description
- xii, 134 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Old age postponed
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-130) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- What's the problem? -- Language as a barrier: "I can't hear you" -- Dress and appearance: disguising the years; failure? -- Digging up the past; or, Where do we come from?: Were our ancestors healthier than we are? -- Ageing factors: More about appearance: tell-tale signs -- sun, smiles and smoking -- Guessing by experts -- More about the skin, posture and bones -- Biomarkers; or, The countdown to the end -- men and women, life-expectancy -- The eyes have it -- Thought for food -- Why do we age? Is it a matter of biological economics -- Elements -- Some age-related diseases: risk factors -- Alzheimer's disease, bones, cancers, heart, Parkinson's, stroke -- The end of ageing -- What can we do about all this? -- Old age -- Biomarkers -- The menopause -- Age in the distant past -- How does human ageing fit into the animal scheme? -- From end to start.
- ISBN
- 9781848165076 (pbk.)
- 1848165072 (pbk.)
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library