Good Housekeeping: It turns out that inflammaging is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, kidney disease, diabetes, cancer, depression and dementia. “The rise in rates of these conditions are the by-products of a longer life span,” says Nicole Ehrhart, V.M.D., the director of Colorado State University’s Columbine Health Systems Center for Healthy Aging, which coordinates the university’s interdisciplinary research teams focused on aging. “

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