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Introduction to Diseases of Ageing
What are the implications of the ...,
What is the evidence for ageing b...,
What is the focus of geriatrics
18
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Evolutionary and Mechanistic Theories of Ageing
What do evolutionary theories of ...,
What do mechanistic theories of a...,
Name the evolutionary theories of...
21
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Lessons from Model Organisms
What are the advantages of saccha...,
What is a disadvantage of sacchar...,
What are the advantages of caenor...
33
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Cellular Senescence as a Cause of Senescent Pathology
What is the hayflick limit,
Which cell cycle stage are most c...,
What is cellular senesence in ter...
21
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Complex Systems at the Edge of Failure
What are the characteristics of g...,
Name the higher order functions a...,
Which 2 types of factors determin...
27
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GWAS and Human Ageing
Is breast cancer polygenic or mon...,
What are the characteristics of t...,
What are cross disease heritabili...
33
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A Life Course Approach to the Study of Ageing
What are the 2 key current popula...,
What are the defining characteris...,
Define epidemiology
40
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Age-Related Decline in Peripheral Metabolic Tissue Homeostasis
Name the main metabolic diseases,
Define obesity,
What is a limitation of bmi as a ...
34
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Epidemiology of Metabolic Disease: Diabetes and Insulin Resistance
What is type 1 diabetes,
What is type 2 diabetes,
What is gestational diabetes
30
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Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes
What is the most important factor...,
Is the influence of genetics on t...,
What is the response of a normal ...
28
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Cardiovascular Disease and Ageing
Where is most of the stroke volum...,
How does cv disease incidence cha...,
What are the 2 types of age relat...
36
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Cancer as a Disease of Ageing
What is above the basal lamina,
What is above the basal cell layer,
Describe the process of cancer fo...
56
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Alzheimer's Disease
What are the physiological roles ...,
What are the physiological roles ...,
What are the physiological roles ...
34
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Ageing and Inherited Neurodegenerative Disorders
Why can inherited forms of dement...,
Give an example of an age associa...,
What is the inheritance pattern o...
33
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Dementia and Delirium: Clinical and Population Aspects
What is the current clinical defi...,
What are the problems with the cu...,
How does the incidence of dementi...
30
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Cognitive and Dementia Epidemiology
What are the characteristics of m...,
What are the predictors of mci pr...,
What is the main neuropathologica...
45
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Musculoskeletal Ageing: Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis, and Sarcopenia
What is functional reserve and ho...,
What happens once the functional ...,
What is sarcopenia
61
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Immune Senescence and Inflammation
What is immune senescence,
Which factors cause different age...,
What is innate immunity and which...
48
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Preventative Approaches to Ageing I
What are the effects of more olde...,
What is healthy ageing,
What is functional ability
42
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Preventative Approaches to Ageing II
How has the main cause of death c...,
What are the current main strateg...,
What is the aim of developing tre...
24
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