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ReviewNPJ Regenerative medicine2021

Longevity leap: mind the healthspan gap.

Armin Garmany, Satsuki Yamada, Andre Terzic

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Review in NPJ Regenerative medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 141 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
141citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

141 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Interventions that prolong multidimensional healthspan in humans: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2026
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  9. Evolutionary genetics of ageing.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Armin GarmanyCenter for Regenerative Medicine, Marriott Family Comprehensive Cardiac Regenerative Medicine, Marriott Heart Disease Research Program, Van Cleve Cardiac Regenerative Medicine Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5518-8544
Satsuki YamadaCenter for Regenerative Medicine, Marriott Family Comprehensive Cardiac Regenerative Medicine, Marriott Heart Disease Research Program, Van Cleve Cardiac Regenerative Medicine Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3072-4539
Andre TerzicCenter for Regenerative Medicine, Marriott Family Comprehensive Cardiac Regenerative Medicine, Marriott Heart Disease Research Program, Van Cleve Cardiac Regenerative Medicine Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. terzic.andre@mayo.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9210-009X

Funding

ENHANCING CARDIOPOIETIC REGENERATION FOR ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHYR01HL134664 · NHLBI · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI TERZIC, ANDRE · 2018 to 2021
$1.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL134664
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Life expectancy has increased by three decades since the mid-twentieth century. Parallel healthspan expansion has however not followed, largely impeded by the pandemic of chronic diseases afflicting a growing older population. The lag in quality of life is a recognized challenge that calls for prioritization of disease-free longevity. Contemporary communal, clinical and research trends aspiring to extend the health horizon are here outlined in the context of an evolving epidemiology. A shared action integrating public and societal endeavors with emerging interventions that target age-related multimorbidity and frailty is needed. A multidimensional buildout of a curative perspective, boosted by modern anti-senescent and regenerative technology with augmented decision making, would require dedicated resources and cost-effective validation to responsibly bridge the healthspan-lifespan gap for a future of equitable global wellbeing.

Identifiers

PMID34556664
PMCPMC8460831

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