The Journals of Gerontology: Series A

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Volume 72 Issue 8 August 2017

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Biological Sciences
Rafael de Cabo

Medical Sciences
Anne B. Newman

GSA's Next Biological Sciences Editors

GSA has appointed Rozalyn Anderson, PhD, FGSA, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and David Le Couteur, FRACP, PhD, of the University of Sydney as the biological sciences co-editors-in-chief of The Journal of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, effective January 2018.

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Latest articles

Frailty and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Tasmanian Study of Cognition and Gait (TASCOG)

Estimation of Skeletal Muscle Mass Relative to Adiposity Improves Prediction of Physical Performance and Incident Disability

Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Relationships Between Inflammatory Biomarkers and Frailty in Community-dwelling Older Men: The Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project

Cognitive Function and Changes in Cognitive Function as Predictors of Incident Cardiovascular Disease: The Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study

FNIH-defined Sarcopenia Predicts Adverse Outcomes Among Community-dwelling Older People in Taiwan: Results from the I-Lan Longitudinal Aging Study

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Scaling ADLs Within the MDS

Rapamycin, But Not Resveratrol or Simvastatin, Extends Life Span of Genetically Heterogeneous Mice

Growth Curves and Survival Characteristics of the Animals Used in the Biomarkers of Aging Program

Quantitative Gait Markers and Incident Fall Risk in Older Adults

Prevalence of Frailty in Middle-Aged and Older Community-Dwelling Europeans Living in 10 Countries

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Calls for Papers: Series B

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Aging Alone? International Perspectives on Social Integration and Isolation?
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Call for Papers: Innovation in Aging

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Vascular Cerebral Damage in Frail Older Adults: The AMImage Study

Frailty has been associated with increased risk of adverse-health related outcomes including cognitive impairment. However, little is know about the pathogenesis relating frailty to cognitive decline. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to investigate the association between vascular ce...

A Clinically Relevant Frailty Index for Aging Rats

Frailty is a clinical syndrome that is increasingly prevalent during aging. Frailty involves the confluence of reduced strength, speed, physical activity, and endurance and is associated with adverse health outcomes. The present study adapts existing clinical and preclinical indices of frailty to t...

CCR4 + Regulatory T Cells Accumulate in the Very Elderly and Correlate With Superior 8-Year Survival

CD4+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) are a distinct population of T cells involved in maintaining peripheral tolerance to self-antigens. Several studies have shown increased frequency and number of Tregs in the elderly. Whether such an increase has any clinical relevance has not been addressed. Here, we...

Aging and the Burden of Multimorbidity: Associations With Inflammatory and Anabolic Hormonal Biomarkers

Multimorbidity increases with aging, but risk factors beyond age are unknown.

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Prevalence and Correlates of Frailty Among Community-Dwelling Chinese Older Adults

Frailty is an age-related clinical syndrome of decreased resilience to stressors and is associated with numerous adverse outcomes. Although there is preponderance of literature on frailty in developed countries, limited investigations have been conducted in less developed regions including China—a country that has the world’s largest aging population.

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