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geriatric syndrome
Introduce the characteristics of aging, explain how aging affects body functions in medicine, and what diseases may result.
Geriatric syndrome refers to health problems that occur in people due to organ aging when they are old. Nutritional imbalance, cell aging, chronic inflammation, etc. are all medically consistent with the characteristics of aging, which in turn lead to sarcopenia, arthritis, Problems such as malnutrition.
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