The diet in the elderly does not provide a sufficient level of nutrients needed to maintain an
adequate healthy status leading to micronutrient deficiencies and impaired immune …

Low zinc status may be a risk factor for pneumonia in the elderly. This special article reviews
the magnitude of the problem of pneumonia (its prevalence, morbidity, and mortality) in the …

Immunosenescence resulting in decreased ability to control infectious disease contributes to
morbidity and mortality not only in the very elderly, but in all likelihood already from middle …

The aging process is a universal, intrinsic, progressive accumulation of deleterious changes
in cells and tissues that increases morbidity and leads to death. The heterogeneity of the …

Nowadays, aging is understood as a dynamic and multifaceted dysregulation process that
spares almost no human organ or cell. The immune system being among the most affected …

Brain aging is characterized by the formation of neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) and senile
plaques (SP) in both cognitively intact individuals and patients with Alzheimer's disease …

Recent longitudinal studies in dietary daily intake in human centenarians have shown that a
satisfactory content of some micronutrients within the cells maintain several immune …

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a heterogeneous and progressive neurodegenerative disease
which in Western society mainly accounts for clinical dementia. AD has been linked to …

In ageing, alterations in inflammatory/immune response and antioxidant capacity lead to
increased susceptibility to diseases and loss of mobility and agility. Various essential …

Zinc is a relevant trace element for the efficiency of the entire immune system. The binding of
zinc with some proteins, such as metallothioneins (MT) and α-2 macroglobulin (α-2M) is …