Water loss in aging and its clinical significance.
Tissue water loss that occurs in aging has important implications for health status and treatment. This article discusses known mechanisms, physiologic examples, and clinical consequences of body-water changes with age, and suggests that careful monitoring of these changes can lead to better guiding of medication and fluid administration to avoid preventable complications.
D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000503:physiopathology; D001834:Body Water / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans