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Inflammageing
Why is it in news?
- Investigations about role of inflammageing in the sever cases of covid-19 in older people is going on.
Details:
- Inflammation throughout the body reaches higher levels is known as ‘inflammageing.
- It can inhibit immunity.
- Inflammageing is very common in older people.
- While inflammation is essential to the immune response, inflammageing is not.
- This state of elevated inflammation can worsen many age-related diseases, and further inhibit the response from an already declining immune system.