Age-related mechanisms in the context of rheumatic disease

Item Type:	Review
Title:	Age-related mechanisms in the context of rheumatic disease
Creators Name:	Alsaleh, G. and Richter, F.C. and Simon, A.K.
Abstract:	Ageing is characterized by a progressive loss of cellular function that leads to a decline in tissue homeostasis, increased vulnerability and adverse health outcomes. Important advances in ageing research have now identified a set of nine candidate hallmarks that are generally considered to contribute to the ageing process and that together determine the ageing phenotype, which is the clinical manifestation of age-related dysfunction in chronic diseases. Although most rheumatic diseases are not yet considered to be age related, available evidence increasingly emphasizes the prevalence of ageing hallmarks in these chronic diseases. On the basis of the current evidence relating to the molecular and cellular ageing pathways involved in rheumatic diseases, we propose that these diseases share a number of features that are observed in ageing, and that they can therefore be considered to be diseases of premature or accelerated ageing. Although more data are needed to clarify whether accelerated ageing drives the development of rheumatic diseases or whether it results from the chronic inflammatory environment, central components of age-related pathways are currently being targeted in clinical trials and may provide a new avenue of therapeutic intervention for patients with rheumatic diseases.
Keywords:	Aging, Cellular Senescence, Chronic Disease, Inflammation, Rheumatic Diseases
Source:	Nature Reviews Rheumatology
ISSN:	1759-4804
Publisher:	Springer Nature
Volume:	18
Number:	12
Page Range:	694-710
Date:	December 2022
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41584-022-00863-8
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