Age related chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes are worsened by long term substance abuse.
He points out that both the child allowance and age related benefits were introduced before the Second World War.
But research indicates that 88% of people with cataracts, 86% of people with age related macular degeneration (AMD) and 81% of people with suspected and definite cases of glaucoma are not in touch with eye care services.
Many eye-vitamin formulations currently on the market are based on research conducted by the National Institutes of Health in a project called Age-Related Eye Disease Study, or AREDS. The first phase of the clinical trial, completed in 2001, found that a specific combination of vitamins C and E, along with beta-carotene and zinc, reduced the risk of age-related macular degeneration by as much as 25%.
Inactivity, poor nutrition, and age-related changes, all help to reduce bone mass at the rate of approximately 1% per year after age 40.
And it's timely -- we're seeing an epidemic of age-related macular degeneration with our aging population.
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Older people with HIV have twice as many age-related health conditions as their HIV negative peers.
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Then it occurred to me how often age-related thought bubbles crop up in the business world.
They could then see whether "age-related misconceptions" existed and look at action to remedy them.
The study backs findings by other U.S. scientists, who warned that physical inactivity can hasten age-related decline.
It is now focused on seeking treatments for major eye diseases, including Wet AMD, or age-related macular degeneration.
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With an increasing elderly population in many countries, more people will be at risk of age-related visual impairment.
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Lucentis is a prescription drug for the treatment of patients with wet age-related macular degeneration and macular edema.
Previous research has indicated that low-level lead exposure may increase the risk of a number of chronic age-related diseases.
Wilkinson: There are other data that have incriminated smoking in age-related macular degeneration.
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As both a young retail manager and the CEO of a company I founded, I rarely encountered age-related tension.
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Now Allergan, maker of Botox, wants to spread fear of "brow furrow"--age-related vertical lines between the eyebrows--to middle America.
In this study, the researchers tested the skin patch on mice with an age-related brain degeneration similar to Alzheimer's.
Mice given the drug every three days from birth suffered far less age-related body-wasting than those which were not.
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This important role is quite helpful reduce the age-related decline in bone mass.
They did, though, continue to experience age-related problems in tissues that do not produce P16INK4A as they get old.
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The proteins were activated in mice bred to mimic the effects of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic retinopathy.
The story everyone's writing is this: Genentech's being hurt by weakening sales of Lucentis, its drug for age-related macular degeneration.
The shadow chancellor also attacked the decision to freeze the age-related pension allowance, labelling it a "tax grab on pensioners".
Another interesting age-related anomaly concerns the decrease in total body water and the relative increase in body fat seen in older people.
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There are two forms of age-related macular degeneration, or AMD: the dry form, known as non-neovascular, and the wet form, called neovascular.
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This is an age-related disease that damages the part of the eye that perceives fine detail, according to the National Eye Institute.
For most countries the pressure from age-related spending still looks years away.
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But if you've smoked, and then stopped there is irreversible damage, which combined with age-related decline can significantly affect their quality of life.
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That could represent further problems for Eyetech, which, along with Pfizer, already sells a treatment called Macugen for the disease--age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
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