title: Water loss in aging and its clinical significance.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000503:physiopathology; D001834:Body Water / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans