THE BALTIMORE LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF HUMAN AGING

NIA的主要研究项目--巴尔的摩老龄化纵向研究（BLSA） 研究计划，对人类的人类老化，已进行了在 自1958年以来，老年学研究中心。 整体科学 劳工及福利局的目标是： 识别不同年龄段的个体之间的差异， 这些个体的连续观察中发生的变化 随着时间的推移;以确定相对贡献 老龄化、疾病过程、群体效应和长期效应 产生观察到的差异和变化;并建立 这些因素之间的相互关系和/或相互作用的程度。 扩大对预测因子和风险的科学理解 特定疾病和其他相关终点的因素 适应老化过程的成功和失败。 与BLSA合作的科学家被分配到7个部门中的11个部门 实验室除了LSB。 LSB工作人员管理和 管理BLSA并与之进行研究。

The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA), the NIA's major research program on human on human aging, has been conducted at the Gerontology Research Center since 1958. The overall scientific goals of the BLSA are: To identify differences among individuals of different ages and changes that occur in the serial observations of these individuals with the passage of time; to determine the relative contribution of aging, disease processes, cohort effects and secular effects in producing observed differences and changes; and to establish the degree of interrelation and/or interaction among these factors. To expand scientific understanding about predictors and risk factors for specific diseases and for other end points related to successes and failures of adaptation to aging processes. Scientists working with BLSA are assigned to 11 sections of 7 laboratories in addition to the LSB. LSB staff administer and manage the BLSA as well as conduct research with it.