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Outwardness helps to live longer
An American study has concluded that long-lived people are more extroverted than others.
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Guess the age and future story by ... urine
Scientists from the International Geriatric Laboratory - Beijing Hospital and the National Geriatric Center (China) have identified a special chemical in the urine.
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20-year-old boy thought 160-year-old old man
Dean Andrews, who lives in Birmingham (England), suffers from a rare disease called Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) - a genetic mutation that makes this 20-y…
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Date of death depends on the date of birth?
According to the head of the Moscow Institute of Geriatric Research, Russian Federation, Alexander Weiserman, the difference in life expectancy between those who have ju…
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The higher the education, the less Alzheimer's
Vietnam has more than 9 million people with dementia whose typical form is Alzheimer's. The incidence of this disease decreases with education.
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Train the mind to help elderly people to work quickly
The result of a study conducted by the National Institute of Nutrition Research in collaboration with the Institute of Geriatric Research in the US published on December…
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Detection of hormones determines life expectancy
On June 21, at the sixth international conference on neurology and geriatrics (ongoing in Pxx, USA), Polish scientists announced that a hormone was found to play a decis…
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Chronic venous insufficiency: The disease can cause severe disability
Recent research conducted by the Geriatric Institute and five other medical centers nationwide has found that up to 34% of people who visit have symptoms of varicose vei…