Drug Discovery Today · Jun 20, 2020

Treating age-related multimorbidity: the drug discovery challenge

By Ermogenous C, Green C, Jackson T et al.

Advanced age is the major risk factor for multimorbidity. Current clinical practice treats the individual age-related diseases, resulting in polypharmacy. Thus, targeting the biological processes that drive ageing could prevent both multimorbidity and polypharmacy.

doi.org/10.1016/j.drudis.2020.06.016Open accessPubMed 32574698Interventions