Our Aging Bodies /
People in developed countries are living longer and, just as the aged population around the world is steadily growing, the number of adults eighty-five and older in the United States is projected to quadruple to twenty-one million people by 2050. The aging of our population has huge implications for...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2015]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- 1. How We Age
- 2. The Aging Nervous System
- 3. The Aging Endocrine System
- 4. The Aging Immune System
- 5. The Aging Reproductive System
- 6. The Aging Urinary System
- 7. The Aging Gastrointestinal System
- 8. The Aging Musculoskeletal System
- 9. The Aging Cardiovascular System
- 10. The Aging Respiratory System
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR