Heart disease and cancer. Arthritis and Alzheimer’s. Kidney disease and diabetes. Most patients have several additional undiagnosed diseases, including hypertension, ischemic heart disease, atrial fibrillation, and dementia.18 Yes, these are different ailments with different pathologies, studied in different buildings at the National Institutes of Health and in different departments within universities. But aging is a risk factor for all of them. In fact, it’s the risk factor. Truly, by comparison, little else matters.
Aging is the core problem
