title: A Disease or Not a Disease? Aging As a Pathology.
abstract: The debate on the relationship between aging and disease is centered on whether aging is a normal/natural/physiological process or it represents a pathology. Considering this relationship from medical, molecular, social, and historical perspectives, we argue that aging is neither a disease, nor a non-disease. Instead, it combines all age-related diseases and their preclinical forms, in addition to other pathological changes.
authors: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01002, USA.
authors: Timothy V
authors: TV
authors: Gladyshev
authors: Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: vgladyshev@rics.bwh.harvard.edu.
authors: Vadim N
authors: VN
authors: Gladyshev
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D004194:Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D010336:Pathology
keywords: aging; disease; pathology