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Gerontology & Geriatrics Studies

The Free Radical Theory of Ageing: Where are We 60 Years Later?

Submission: January 18, 2018; Published: January 22, 2018

DOI: 10.31031/GGS.2018.01.000524

ISSN: 2578-0093
Volume1 Issue5

Abstract

Our average life expectancy is getting longer at a rate of 3 months every year. By day, we win 6 hours of life expectancy. Human global average life expectancy is 71 years write now. One century before, it was 30 years. In other words, the advancing knowledge of better hygiene, biomedicine, and elimination of the most infectious diseases occurring in youth, vaccine and the good nutrition has led us to discover the aging process and the lengthening of life expectancy. The immediate consequence of the extended life expectancy is represented by the increasing number of older people in developed countries.

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