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SUBMITTER: de Almeida AJPO
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7232723 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Almeida Arthur José Pontes Oliveira AJPO de Almeida Rezende Mathania Silva MS Dantas Sabine Helena SH de Lima Silva Sonaly S de Oliveira Júlio César Pinheiro Lúcio JCPL de Lourdes Assunção Araújo de Azevedo Fátima F Alves Rayanne Maira Felix Ribeiro RMFR de Menezes Geovânia Maria Sales GMS Dos Santos Pablo Ferreira PF Gonçalves Tays Amanda Felisberto TAF Schini-Kerth Valérie B VB de Medeiros Isac Almeida IA
Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity 20200508
The global population above 60 years has been growing exponentially in the last decades, which is accompanied by an increase in the prevalence of age-related chronic diseases, highlighting cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), such as hypertension, atherosclerosis, and heart failure. Aging is the main risk factor for these diseases. Such susceptibility to disease is explained, at least in part, by the increase of oxidative stress, in which it damages cellular components such as proteins, DNA, and lipi ...[more]