Normal Human Aging: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.

Autor/inn/en	Shock, Nathan W.; und weitere
Institution	National Inst. on Aging (DHHS/NIH), Bethesda, MD.
Titel	Normal Human Aging: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.
Quelle	(1984), (661 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Age Differences; Aging (Individuals); Individual Development; Longitudinal Studies; Research Methodology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Aging; Altern; Individuelle Entwicklung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Research method; Forschungsmethode
Abstract	The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA) was begun in 1958 to trace the effects of aging in humans and to distinguish between the true effects of aging and those processes, including disease, socioeconomic disadvantage, and lack of educational opportunity, that may appear or become more pronounced with time but are biologically irrelevant to the underlying mechanisms of human aging. It has sought to achieve this goal by making measurements on over 1,000 male volunteers who at their entry into the study were aged 17 to 96 years and were living independently in the community. Since 1978, women have been systematically added to the BLSA. This document presents a report of the BLSA's first 23 years. Chapter I describes methods for the study of aging. Chapter II provides a literature review of studies that illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of the longitudinal method and that were conducted on normal community-residing adults. Chapter III describes the general design of the study, characteristics of the subjects, the tests used, data storage and retrieval, and methods of data analysis. Chapter IV describes in detail the testing procedures followed. The results of published BLSA cross-sectional analyses are summarized in chapter V, while those based on longitudinal examinations of selected variables are summarized in chapter VI, and 35 of those longitudinal studies themselves are reprinted in the appendix, which comprises over half of this volume. Preceding the appendix, the seventh and last chapter looks at future directions for the BLSA. Thirty-five tables and 48 figures are included, and a 386-item reference list is provided. (NB)
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