Global Health News

Date: February 10, 2015
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Location: Centre for Clinical Research, CH&E Classroom #409, 5790 University Avenue

Aging in individuals is not easy to define. People accumulate different health problems (illnesses, disabilities, laboratory abnormalities, symptoms, signs, jointly referred to as deficits). Despite diversity in the manifestations of aging at the individual level, there is a common thread: the number of deficits characteristically increases with aging.

Dr. Arnold Mitnitski will discuss a recent development in the area of aging: a stochastic framework in which aging is regarded as a consequence of the complex interplay between environmental challenges (characterized by the intensity of environmental stressors), and the ability of the organism to resist or repair the damage caused by such stresses.