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Trends and expenditures in polypharmacy and hyperpolypharmacy among older adults in the United States, 2002-2017

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CONCLUSION: Polypharmacy and hyperpolypharmacy remain highly prevalent among older adults in the U.S., with a significant growth in medication expenditures over time among those with hyperpolypharmacy. These findings highlight the critical need for ongoing monitoring and tailored prescribing optimization efforts targeting subgroups with the high prescribing burden to reduce the clinical and economic burdens of polypharmacy and hyperpolypharmacy in aging populations.
Haowen Hsu

The Immune Cell Atlas of "Longevity Molecular Tag": Identification of Principal Immune Cell Subsets and Their Underlying Molecular Regulatory Mechanisms

7 months 4 weeks ago
Immunosenescence represents a critical aspect of the aging process. Centenarians, serving as a nature model of "healthy aging," demonstrate a distinctive immune "compensatory adaptation" mechanism that contributes to the maintenance of immune homeostasis. However, the specific immune cell subsets involved and the molecular mechanisms underlying these phenotypic traits remain incompletely understood. In this study, we integrated single-cell RNA sequencing data spanning the entire lifespan of East...
Zhiling Zhang

Nucleosome spacing across cell types, diseases, and ages

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Nucleosome spacing patterns in the genome form a unique signature of a given cell, reflecting its chromatin organization and gene expression. Recently, studies of nucleosome spacing have expanded substantially due to the development of novel experimental tools and increased analysis of human samples. This has yielded thousands of high-resolution nucleosome maps across many species and cell types, as well as multiple human datasets that span across different ages and health conditions. With the...
Milena Bikova