University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, FL, USA.
Advent Health (Celebration and South Campuses); University of Central Florida; University of South Florida; AdventHealth Medical Group-Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, 410 Celebration Place, Suite 305, Celebration, FL 34747, USA.
Otolaryngol Clin North Am. 2022 Oct;55(5):899-907. doi: 10.1016/j.otc.2022.06.016. Epub 2022 Sep 7.
Aging, an ever-present process, is a part of every living organism's life cycle. Gerontology, the study of the biological, social, psychological aspects of aging, is a field that has been around since the 1930s, when the human inquiry into aging began to emerge. Aging can be characterized by the external changes, wrinkles, graying of the hair, among other changes, and lesser-seen but still important changes, presbycusis, arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis, cognitive decline, sarcopenia, and more. There is a strong drive to uncover as much as we can about the process of aging and the ways to delay its progression.
衰老是一个永恒的过程，是每个生物体生命周期的一部分。老年学是研究衰老的生物学、社会和心理方面的学科，自 20 世纪 30 年代人类开始研究衰老以来，它就已经存在了。衰老是可以通过外部变化来表征的，如皱纹、头发变白等变化，以及不太明显但仍然很重要的变化，如听力损失、动脉硬化、骨质疏松症、认知能力下降、肌肉减少症等。人们强烈地希望尽可能多地了解衰老过程以及延缓其进展的方法。
