Nir Barzilai1,*, James C Appleby2, Steven N Austad3, Ana Maria Cuervo1, Matt Kaeberlein4, Christian Gonzalez-Billault5,6, Stephanie Lederman7, Ilia Stambler8,*, Felipe Sierra9,*
1Institute for Aging Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA 2Gerontological Society of America, USA 3Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA 4Department of Pathology, University of Washington, USA 5Geroscience Center for Brain Health and Metabolism (GERO), Chile 6The Buck Institute for Research on Aging, USA 7American Federation for Aging Research, USA 8Vetek (Seniority) Association - the Movement for Longevity and Quality of Life, Israel 9National Institute on Aging, NIH, USA
The data on COVID-19 is clear on at least one point: Older adults are most vulnerable to hospitalization, disability and death following infection with the novel coronavirus. Therefore, therapeutically addressing degenerative aging processes as the main risk factors appears promising for tackling the present crisis and is expected to be relevant when tackling future infections, epidemics and pandemics. Therefore, utilizing a geroscience approach, targeting aging processes to prevent multimorbidity, via initiating broad clinical trials of potential geroprotective therapies, is recommended.
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