“Positive biology”: the centenarian lesson

The extraordinary increase of the elderly in developed countries underscore the importance of studies on ageing and longevity and the need for the prompt spread of knowledge about ageing in order to satisfactorily decrease the medical, economic and social problems associated to advancing years, beca...

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Main Authors: Caruso, Calogero, Passarino, Giuseppe, Puca, Annibale, Scapagnini, Giovanni
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3412734/
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spelling pubmed-34127342012-08-07 “Positive biology”: the centenarian lesson Caruso, Calogero Passarino, Giuseppe Puca, Annibale Scapagnini, Giovanni Editorial The extraordinary increase of the elderly in developed countries underscore the importance of studies on ageing and longevity and the need for the prompt spread of knowledge about ageing in order to satisfactorily decrease the medical, economic and social problems associated to advancing years, because of the increased number of individuals not autonomous and affected by invalidating pathologies. BioMed Central 2012-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3412734/ /pubmed/22524297 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4933-9-5 Text en Copyright ©2012 Caruso et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Caruso, Calogero
Passarino, Giuseppe
Puca, Annibale
Scapagnini, Giovanni
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Passarino, Giuseppe
Puca, Annibale
Scapagnini, Giovanni
“Positive biology”: the centenarian lesson
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Passarino, Giuseppe
Puca, Annibale
Scapagnini, Giovanni
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title “Positive biology”: the centenarian lesson
title_short “Positive biology”: the centenarian lesson
title_full “Positive biology”: the centenarian lesson
title_fullStr “Positive biology”: the centenarian lesson
title_full_unstemmed “Positive biology”: the centenarian lesson
title_sort “positive biology”: the centenarian lesson
description The extraordinary increase of the elderly in developed countries underscore the importance of studies on ageing and longevity and the need for the prompt spread of knowledge about ageing in order to satisfactorily decrease the medical, economic and social problems associated to advancing years, because of the increased number of individuals not autonomous and affected by invalidating pathologies.
publisher BioMed Central
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