The last four decades has witnessed some of the deadliest viral pandemics with far-reaching
consequences. These include the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)(1981), Severe …

Background It is a well-described clinical phenomenon that females live longer than males,
yet tend to experience greater levels of co-morbidity and disability. Females can therefore be …

Biological age measurements (BAs) assess aging-related physiological change and predict
health risks among individuals of the same chronological age (CA). Multiple BAs have been …

Aim To examine the magnitude of sex differences in survival from the coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) in Europe across age groups and regions. We hypothesized that men …

Do men die young and sick, or do women live long and healthy? By trying to explain the
sexual dimorphism in life expectancy, both biological and environmental aspects are …

More than 20 years ago, Wood et al.(Curr Anthropol 33: 343–370, 1992) published “The
Osteological Paradox: Problems of Inferring Prehistoric Health from Skeletal Samples,” in …

If the pace of increase in life expectancy in developed countries over the past two centuries
continues through the 21st century, most babies born since 2000 in France, Germany, Italy …

Human senescence has been delayed by a decade. This finding, documented in 1994 and
bolstered since, is a fundamental discovery about the biology of human ageing, and one …

Frailty describes an individual's vulnerability to adverse health outcomes and is a useful
construct that assists health professionals to understand the heterogeneity of the ageing …

Background Epigenetic biomarkers of aging (the “epigenetic clock”) have the potential to
address puzzling findings surrounding mortality rates and incidence of cardio-metabolic …