Changes with Age. In most cases, a person's normal respiratory rate will change with age; younger adults, children, and babies will typically have faster respiratory rates, because as people age, their breathing usually slows down.
Modic changes are pathological changes in the bones of the spine, the vertebrae. These changes are situated in both the body of the vertebrae and in the end plate of the neighboring disc.
1 In Modic type 2 changes there are changes in bone marrow, with fatty replacement of formerly red, cellular marrow normally seen there. 2  With Modic type 2 changes the marrow is substituted by visceral fat, the same kind of fat we have on our hips and bellies.