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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:792-795
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Symposium Theme: Ageing

The gifts reserved for age

John Grimley Evans

University of Oxford, Green College, Oxford OX2 6HG, UK.

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Many disciplines from the biological and social sciences are relevant to the study of human ageing. The unique contribution of epidemiology lies in defining the phenomenon of ageing and identifying the influences that determine its manifestations. With sadness we recognise, wherever we look in the world, that these influences include privilege, prejudice, and politics.

Ageing, in the sense of senescence, is characterized by progressive loss of adaptability of individual organisms as time passes. Such loss of adaptability is revealed by a rise of age-specific mortality rates. In the human being, mortality rates fall from infancy to a nadir at the age of ten or eleven. Thereafter with minor perturbations in early adult life due to deaths from accident and violence, senescence is manifest as a steady and approximately exponential rise in mortality rates for the rest of the lifespan. Perhaps more importantly, loss of adaptability is also declared in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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