Is aging a preventable or curable disease?

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 93-97

  Callahan, Daniel ^a   Topinkova, Eva ^b  

^a HASTINGS CENTER   (United States)

^b Postgradual Medical Institute   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

AGING; HUMANS; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0031657417     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-199813020-00001     Document Type: Short Survey

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