The doctor named five diseases that indicate the aging of the body

There are five diseases that can indicate the beginning of aging of the body. This was announced on May 11 by Olga Tkacheva, chief freelance specialist of the Geriatric Department of the Russian Ministry of Health, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Russian Gerontological Research and Clinical Center.

"When we see, for example, cardiovascular diseases of atherosclerotic origin, or cancer, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or musculoskeletal system disease, or type 2 diabetes, then we can say that this is a clinical manifestation of the disease of aging. We begin to see this somewhere on average at the age of 60," TASS quoted her as saying.

In addition, as the expert noted, aging may be indicated by a decrease in body functions, including muscle weakness. Tkacheva also added that the aging process itself begins from the age of 25-30.

On May 6, Zarema Ten, Head of the Center for Public Health and Medical Prevention at the Vidnovo Clinical Hospital, spoke about the relationship between biological age and lifestyle. She noted that chronological age is only the number of years lived, whereas biological age reflects the actual state of the body and the degree of wear of cells and organs.