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Ageing: Not only an age-related issue.
Ferran SuayMike MurphyEsperanza Navarro-pardosubject
GerontologyAgingEvolutionHealth StatusPsychological interventionHealthy AgingLife ExpectancySex FactorsArgumentAge relatedHumansGonadal Steroid HormonesLife StyleStress responseGenderBiological sexLifestyleHormonesAgeingLifestyle factorsAgeingLife expectancyQuality of LifeSexHealthy ageingPsychologyDevelopmental Biologydescription
Developments in the last century have led to an unprecedented increase in life expectancy. These changes open opportunities for humans to grow and develop in healthy and adaptive ways, adding life to years as well as years to life. There are also challenges, however - as we live longer, a greater number of people will experience chronic illness and disability, often linked to lifestyle factors. The current paper advances an argument that there are fundamental biological sex differences which, sometimes directly and sometime mediated by lifestyle factors, underpin the marked differences in morbidity and mortality that we find between the sexes. Furthermore, we argue that it is necessary to consider sex as a key factor in research on healthy ageing, allowing for the possibility that different patterns exist between males and females, and that therefore different approaches and interventions are required to optimise healthy ageing in both sexes.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-01 | Mechanisms of ageing and development |