[Evaluating the degree of aging: current situations and future perspectives].
Degree of aging can be evaluated using various indications, such as genetics (telomere etc.), cellular markers, and clinical judgments. Along with increased practice of clinical aging checkups, such as Health and Longevity Checkup ("Kenkou-Jyumyou Dock") and Anti-aging Checkup ("Kokarei Dock"), a database on aging is currently being developed among the Japanese population. With this database, we are gaining better understanding of each marker's standard values and the correlations between diversified factors like hs-CRP and other inflammatory factors, oxidative stress, bone-vessel correlations, diagnostic imaging etc. In the future, verifying these indications in intervention trials would be the key to establish anti-aging as a part of medical science.
Kubo
Akira
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Tokai University School of Medicine.
D000368:Aged; D016208:Databases, Factual; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006801:Humans