Declining Autonomic Nervous System Function Correlates with Declining Physical Function

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/12/declining-autonomic-nervous-system-function-correlates-with-declining-physical-function/

Many aspects of aging tend to progress in parallel, which is much as one might expect if considering aging to be a collection of outcomes that all arise from the same underlying forms of cell and tissue damage. So finding a correlation isn’t always evidence that there is some link between outcomes in aging. Here, researchers note an association between physical capacity and autonomic nervous system function in late life. It is quite possible to theorize on cause and consequence, and the mechanisms involved, in this situation – but actually proving any of those connections is quite a different story.

The autonomic nervous system plays unique and pivotal roles in maintaining physiological homeostasis. These roles are mainly exerted through their effects on the function…

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