Which factor contributes to older adults' impaired ability to resist infection and overall lowered immunity?
1) Systemic vascular resistance decreases.
2) Venous elasticity decreases.
3) Lymph nodes become fibrotic and fatty.
4) Thymus shrinks.
ANS: 3
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