The degree of frailty as a translational measure of health in aging

SE Howlett, AD Rutenberg, K Rockwood - Nature Aging, 2021 - nature.com
Frailty is a multiply determined, age-related state of increased risk for adverse health
outcomes. We review how the degree of frailty conditions the development of late-life …

Hallmarks of cardiovascular ageing

M Abdellatif, PP Rainer, S Sedej… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Normal circulatory function is a key determinant of disease-free life expectancy (healthspan).
Indeed, pathologies affecting the cardiovascular system, which are growing in prevalence …

Geroscience‐guided repurposing of FDA‐approved drugs to target aging: A proposed process and prioritization

AS Kulkarni, S Aleksic, DM Berger, F Sierra… - Aging …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Common chronic diseases represent the greatest driver of rising healthcare costs, as well as
declining function, independence, and quality of life. Geroscience‐guided approaches seek …

[PDF][PDF] Differences in frailty in older men and women.

EH Gordon, RE Hubbard - Medical Journal of Australia, 2020 - mja.com.au
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Sex differences in frailty: comparisons between humans and preclinical models

AE Kane, SE Howlett - Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, 2021 - Elsevier
Frailty can be viewed as a state of physiological decline that increases susceptibility to
adverse health outcomes. This loss of physiological reserve means that even small stressors …

Fifteen years of progress in understanding frailty and health in aging

K Rockwood, SE Howlett - BMC medicine, 2018 - Springer
The notion of frailty has evolved for more than 15 years. Although there is no consensus
definition, frailty reflects a state of increased vulnerability to adverse health outcomes for …

Age and life expectancy clocks based on machine learning analysis of mouse frailty

MB Schultz, AE Kane, SJ Mitchell… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The identification of genes and interventions that slow or reverse aging is hampered by the
lack of non-invasive metrics that can predict the life expectancy of pre-clinical models. Frailty …

How to slow down the ticking clock: age-associated epigenetic alterations and related interventions to extend life span

AM Galow, S Peleg - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Epigenetic alterations pose one major hallmark of organismal aging. Here, we provide an
overview on recent findings describing the epigenetic changes that arise during aging and …

Characterizing sex differences in physical frailty phenotypes in heart failure

QE Denfeld, BA Habecker, SA Camacho… - Circulation: Heart …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Although women with heart failure (HF) are potentially more likely to be
physically frail compared with men with HF, the underlying contributors to this sex difference …

Brain renin–angiotensin system as novel and potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease

R Loera-Valencia, F Eroli, S Garcia-Ptacek… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The activation of the brain renin-angiotensin system (RAS) plays a pivotal role in the
pathophysiology of cognition. While the brain RAS has been studied before in the context of …