Skin Repair Reduces ‘Inflamm-Aging’ Factors Linked to Chronic Disease
This article is archived and only made available for historical reference. If you’d like to discover UCSF’s most recent advances in research, education and patient care, please visit the UCSF News Center. The good news is that properly caring for the skin with a moisturizing cream may lower inflammation levels and potentially reduce the risk of a number of age-related diseases, according to a new clinical pilot study.
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This article is archived and only made available for historical reference. If you’d like to discover UCSF’s most recent advances in research, education and patient care, please visit the UCSF News Center. Research March 13, 2019 Archive: Skin Repair Reduces ‘Inflamm-Aging’ Factors Linked to Chronic Disease In Pilot Study, Treatment With a Reparative Skin Cream Lowered Cytokine Levels Linked to Alzheimer’s, Heart Disease and Diabetes By Dana Smith Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Email this article Print this article Skin is the body’s largest organ, and scientists at UC San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Administration (VA) Health Care System think it may be to blame for body-wide inflammation linked to numerous chronic diseases of aging.
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