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Elderly adults are living longer, and causes of death are shifting. At the same time, autopsy rates are at or near their lowest in history.
Chronic necrotizing aspergillosis has a slowly progressive process that, unlike invasive aspergillosis, does not spread to other organ systems or the blood vessels. It most often affects middle-aged and elderly individuals, spreading to surrounding tissue in the lungs. The disease often does not respond to conventionally successful treatments, and requires individualized therapies in order to keep it from becoming life-threatening.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
Bacteria have flourished on the earth for over three billion years. They were the first life forms on the planet.