title: [Is aging a medical risk factor? (author's transl)].
abstract: Morphological and functional peculiarities appear with increasing age. Senile changes often cause the well known clinical picture and complications to appear different phenomenologically and in their course. Thus particular tonic conditions of the esophagus are found, the senile ulcer is typical and even the small and large intestines show characteristic findings. Finally, according to age care must be taken in diagnostic and therapeutic measures, otherwise slight iatrogenic damage may occur. Age consequently presents a risk through organic and functional changes which must be allowed for in all our classifications and observations.
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D001143:Arousal; D004247:DNA / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease / Q000517:prevention & control; D008875:Middle Aged; D010913:Pituitary-Adrenal System / Q000502:physiology; D012313:RNA / Q000032:analysis; D011930:Reaction Time; D012306:Risk; D009435:Synaptic Transmission
chemical_list: D012313:RNA; D004247:DNA
vernacular_title: Ist das Altern in medizinischer Hinsicht ein Risikofaktor?