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Phil Gunby
JAMA contributor

JAMA. 1998;279:982-983.

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AGING Americans are making news—and so is an institution that has pioneered in studying them.

Senator John H. Glenn, Jr, soon becomes the world's oldest space traveler at the age of 77 years. Gloria Stuart in her Titanic acting comeback at the age of 87 years is Hollywood's oldest Oscar nominee.

And the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA)—having reached the once traditionally accepted "middle age" of 40 years—also is combining years of experience with the innovations required to meet today's demands.

Jerome L. Fleg, MD, checks out a major research tool, the BLSA's cardiovascular testing treadmill. (Photo credit: Phil Gunby)

So called because much of its research is done in Baltimore, Md, at the federal Gerontology Research Center, the BLSA is considered by most gerontologists to be one of the world's premier longitudinal studies of normal aging. It relies on volunteers—2470 so far—who pay their own way . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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