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It makes sense that moisturizing the skin is the best way to keep it from getting dry and itchy. But what if there is a link between dry skin and a host of age-related diseases?
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have concluded that age-damaged skin could be a contributing factor to a number of age-related conditions such as heart disease and Alzheimer’s disease.
In research published earlier this month in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, scientists described their observations in studying older adults at the San Francisco Veterans Administration Health System.
“Aged humans exhibit chronic, subclinical systemic inflammation, commonly termed ‘inflamm-aging’, which has been further linked to the downstream emergence of a variety of age-associated chronic disorders, including cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis and Alzheimer’s disease,” Dr. Mao-Qiang Man, the study’s senior author and dermatologist at UCSF, explained to Healthline.
To understand this, it helps to understand what cytokines are.
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