Sentences with phrase «nia studies»

In two NIA studies, healthy, normal - weight rhesus monkeys were placed on long - term calorie restricted regimens.

Caloric restriction became something of a fad two decades ago, when a few individuals set out to cut their calories by 30 percent to slow the diseases of aging, but the Wisconsin and NIA studies have a much broader focus.

The discrepancy may be a result of how the feeding was implemented in control animals in the NIA study, say the Wisconsin researchers.

In 2012, however, the NIA study team reported no significant improvement in survival, but did find a trend toward improved health.

Not exact matches

The NIA's study found that people with defined - benefit plans, such as traditional pensions, retire on average 1.3 years earlier than those with defined - contribution plans, such as 401 (k) s.

A leading immunologist, Dr. Hodes was named Director of the NIA in 1993, to oversee studies of the basic, clinical, epidemiological and social aspects of aging.

«After six months, resveratrol essentially prevented most of the negative effects of the high - calorie diet in mice,» says study co-author Rafael de Cabo of the National Institute of Aging (NIA).

To learn whether humans also have an age - related decline in the density of taste buds, Chia and Egan analyzed data from 353 adults who participated in the NIA's Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging between 2011 and 2014.

But from the start, she also developed her own line of inquiry, winning a grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to continue studying genes that govern senescence.

The seniors were part of an ongoing longitudinal study funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), which surveys a representative sample of 20,000 older adults in the U.S. every two years.

Genetics probably explains part of the variation between the monkey studies, too, as the NIA monkeys were descended from lines from India and China, whereas the Wisconsin monkeys were all from India.

As adults, control monkeys in the WNPRC study weighed more than their NIA counterparts.

«To think that a simple decrease in calories caused such a widespread change, that was remarkable,» says Don Ingram, a gerontologist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, who designed the study almost three decades ago while at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Bethesda, Maryland.

In fact, in another study published last year, National Institute on Aging (NIA) researchers discovered that people with what's called a CR1 gene variant — the presence of which heightens Alzheimer's disease risk — had much lower levels of amyloid protein compared with those without the mutant gene.

An influential 2012 report on 120 monkeys being studied at the National Institute of Aging (NIA) reported no differences in survival for caloric restriction animals and a trend toward improved health that did not reach statistical significance.

«We are now working with the NIA scientists to perform a comprehensive analysis of all of our data, taking into consideration the differences in study design, genetics, time of origin and composition of the diet.

However, the second study, run by the NIA, found there was no difference in the survival rates of their animals, which cast doubt on the entire premise.

(Though NIA funded the project, Nielsen was not involved in the study.)

The new study is the first to show a characteristic pattern of brain activation in a «social» situation involving the assessment of another person's trustworthiness, says psychologist Lisbeth Nielsen of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Bethesda, Maryland.

This study was supported with funding by the UCLA Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, UCLA, American Sleep Medicine Foundation and the National Institute on Aging (NIA).

The HOPE Study is the flagship research project of the BU Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Center, funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA).

The NIA recently awarded a 5 - year, $ 19.5 million grant to the Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC) to conduct a genome - wide association study (GWAS) to identify the remaining genes associated with an increased risk of developing late - onset Alzheimer's disease (AD).

The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) has grant support from NIH, Department of Health and Human Services, through the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) and the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH)(Grants U01NR004061, U01AG012505, U01AG012535, U01AG012531, U01AG012539, U01AG012546, U01AG012553, U01AG012554, and U01AG012495).

The research published in Nature Genetics was supported by the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, which includes 29 Alzheimer's Disease Centers, the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center, the NIA Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease Data Storage Site, the NIA Late Onset Alzheimer's Disease Family Study and the National Cell Repository for Alzheimer's Disease.

The Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC), a collaborative body established and funded by the NIA, part of the NIH, coordinated the study.

«This study is significant in that it reports the first measurement of beta - amyloid production and clearance in Alzheimer's,» says Dr. Marcelle Morrison - Bogorad, director of the Division of Neuroscience at NIH's National Institute on Aging (NIA).

Third, under the NIA AD Genetics Sharing Policy and the NIAGADS Data Distribution Agreement individual NIA funded investigators studying the genetics and the genomics of AD will provide their data to NIAGADS and the Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP), and in turn these data will be shared with the ADSP.

Samples from the NIA - LOAD (National Institute on Aging Genetics Initiative for Late - Onset Alzheimer's Disease) family study were collected under a cooperative agreement awarded by the NIA (U24 AG026395).

A comparison of body weight of control animals from both studies with each other, and against data collected in a multi-centred relational database of primate ageing, suggests that the NIA control monkeys were effectively undergoing CR.

These data contrast with observations in the 2012 NIA intramural study report, where a difference in survival was not detected between control - fed and CR monkeys.

And that brisk stroll can also keep your pooch's brain in tip - top shape, too, according to a 2005 study supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA).

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On a side note, studies in adult male twins show insignificant rates of aggression (Rushton, Fulker, Neale, Nias, & Eysenck, 1986) and this study shows that not every child who has a behavioral disorder in their youth will continue displaying these traits into adulthood.

nia and their doctors were included in this study.