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The connection between chronic inflammation and diseases of aging
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Is there a problem with increasing life expectancy? If you look at the graph of average life years alone, the development over the last fifty years looks very positive. This graph shows a steady upward trend, especially in Western countries. People are getting older continuously.
There is, however, a second graph that has risen much slower: that of healthy life expectancy...