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    Reference https://www.aging-us.com/article/102023/text https://jphysiolanthropol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1880-6805-31-28 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jgs.12011 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3123419/

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    • Acute
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