Center on Aging and Health
The Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health

Biostatistics Core: Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC)
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Overview
The Biostatistics Core seeks to empower our institutions' scientists with the quantitative support and expertise needed to create and translate into clinical practice the next generations of research on frailty.

The Core aims to achieve this goal through the provision of first-rate statistical reasoning and database resources to OAIC-affiliated research projects, the development and support of new methodologies that are essential to studying the etiology, natural history and outcomes of frailty, and the mentoring of promising junior investigators in quantitative methods.

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In the News

Research shows that systemic inflammation in older persons can be validly measured through multiple markers aligned with biology on inflammatory regulation.

Transcobalamin-II variants suggest association with decreased vitamin B12 and lowered energy metabolism, leading to frailty.

Thyroid autoantibodies associated with reduced prevalence of frailty in community-dwelling older women.

OAIC investigators perform genome-wide association analysis of serum iron concentrations.

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Announcements

The Pepper Center National Meeting will take place in Bethesda, MD on April 12-13, 2010.

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