title: [Age dependent risk factors (author's transl)].
abstract: With increasing age the intrinsic disposition of diseases gains always more of importance facing the true causes of diseases. This disposition includes the totality of all changes of aging, which therefore have the significance of risk factors. There are mentionned several groups of age dependent risk factors, which can lead in different manner to real diseases. Since the importance of preventive geriatrics gets more and more important, it is indispensable to determine the aging processes so far as they have the significance of risk factors, and then to adjust the preventive measures. Age depending preventive geriatrics requires a continuous care and is specially the task of the practitioner or of the family doctor.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D006801:Humans; D012306:Risk
vernacular_title: Physiologische Alternsveränderungen als Risikofaktoren.