Healthy aging is defined as the process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables well-being in older age. As population aging accelerates rapidly worldwide, healthy aging has become a major public health challenge. However, in later life, several metabolic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension and their complications (cardiovascular and renal diseases et al.) impose significant barriers to healthy aging. These conditions are influenced by various metabolic risk factors, such as smoking, high-calorie diet, and obesity. Moreover, these risk factors can also affect the aging process itself, by disrupting the balance of metabolic regulation in the body. Therefore, understanding the complex interactions between aging and metabolic diseases is essential for improving public health outcomes in older populations.
This Research Topic aims to explore the links between metabolic risk factors, chronic and metabolic diseases, and healthy aging. We wish to unveil evidence on how to prevent, treat, and manage metabolic risk factors and diseases in older adults, in order to offer recommendations for future research and policy interventions toward healthy aging and public health.
This article collection welcomes submissions of original research, review articles, viewpoint articles, short research report articles, commentary articles and opinion articles to provide a forum for recent advances in the focus of the following topics, but not limited to:
· Current state and direction of public health research, practice, and policy on metabolic diseases and healthy aging
· Identification of risk factors for healthy aging and their impact on public health
· Prevention strategies for metabolic risk factors and diseases in older adults
· Associations between unhealthy lifestyle behaviors and metabolic disorders among older adults
Healthy aging is defined as the process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables well-being in older age. As population aging accelerates rapidly worldwide, healthy aging has become a major public health challenge. However, in later life, several metabolic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension and their complications (cardiovascular and renal diseases et al.) impose significant barriers to healthy aging. These conditions are influenced by various metabolic risk factors, such as smoking, high-calorie diet, and obesity. Moreover, these risk factors can also affect the aging process itself, by disrupting the balance of metabolic regulation in the body. Therefore, understanding the complex interactions between aging and metabolic diseases is essential for improving public health outcomes in older populations.
This Research Topic aims to explore the links between metabolic risk factors, chronic and metabolic diseases, and healthy aging. We wish to unveil evidence on how to prevent, treat, and manage metabolic risk factors and diseases in older adults, in order to offer recommendations for future research and policy interventions toward healthy aging and public health.
This article collection welcomes submissions of original research, review articles, viewpoint articles, short research report articles, commentary articles and opinion articles to provide a forum for recent advances in the focus of the following topics, but not limited to:
· Current state and direction of public health research, practice, and policy on metabolic diseases and healthy aging
· Identification of risk factors for healthy aging and their impact on public health
· Prevention strategies for metabolic risk factors and diseases in older adults
· Associations between unhealthy lifestyle behaviors and metabolic disorders among older adults