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Aging-associated diseases
- Myocardial infarctionA heart attack is tissue death, and the dead heart muscle cells do not come back. A scar forms in their place.
- Parkinson's diseaseThree of the six first cases of Parkinson's disease were strangers a doctor watched on London streets.
- Alzheimer's diseaseA German psychiatrist followed one patient until 1906, then reported what he found inside her brain.
- ArthritisArthritis is not one disease but a whole family of joint conditions.
- Cardiovascular diseaseSigns of heart disease show up in children as young as seven. A study found artery lesions in every aorta it checked.
- Heart failureIn 2022, about 64 million people around the world were living with heart failure. The name sounds like an ending, yet the condition is usually a slow struggle. Heart failure, also called congestive heart failure, is a syndrome. The heart…
- DementiaDementia is not one disease but a syndrome with dozens of possible causes.
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseChronic obstructive pulmonary disease caused roughly 5% of all deaths worldwide in 2021.
- Hashimoto's thyroiditisIn 1912, a Japanese physician named Hakaru Hashimoto, working at the medical school of Kyushu University, published a paper of 30 pages with 5 illustrations. His evidence came from only four women. In each of them, the thyroid gland was…
- CancerCancer is named after a crab. Greek physicians saw swollen veins fanning out from tumors like legs.