Louisiana ranks among the highest states nationally for childhood obesity, with some reports placing it as high as fourth, ...

A 47-year longitudinal study of the general population reveals that physical peak occurs around age 35, followed by a decline ...

The workshop focused on challenges that are specific to the types of longitudinal studies supported by NIA and aimed to identify areas of methodological research that could be pursued in order to ...

What is aging? That’s the question the National Institutes of Health (NIH) sought to answer in 1958 when it launched the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA)—now the world’s longest-running ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Norman Swan: 30 years ago in Western Australia, 3,000 women who were about 18 weeks pregnant agreed to ...

As social scientists, any research methodology that we use will represent a trade-off in terms of the strengths of the study versus potential limitations. No research is perfect, but it can be valid ...

Contrary to popular belief, the prime of life isn't about youthful freedom but a later-life shift in perspective. Decades of ...

Physical abilities fade as we age, but many of us like to think that won't be an issue until we're well into our golden years ...