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2021 , Vol. 55 >Issue Sup.1: 20 - 21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.16183/j.cnki.jsjtu.2021.S1.027

Life Sciences

Is Aging a Disease?

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  • Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, China

Received date: 2021-02-18

  Online published: 2021-04-09

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Abstract

Aging is an unavoidable and natural phenomenon faced by everyone in the life span. This paper reviewed and summarized the advances made in the reorganization of aging in the past decades from the perspective of medical science and human dimensions, illustrating whether aging should be treated as a disease, and forecasting the prospect of aging in future research.

Key words： aging; disease; treatment

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WEN Dongsheng,LI Qingfeng . Is Aging a Disease?[J]. Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2021 , 55(Sup.1) : 20 -21 . DOI: 10.16183/j.cnki.jsjtu.2021.S1.027

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