Midlife exercise blood pressure, heart rate, and fitness relate to brain volume 2 decades later
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- Received August 11, 2015
- Accepted in final form December 14, 2015
- First Published February 10, 2016.
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Author Disclosures
- Nicole L. Spartano, PhD,
- Jayandra J. Himali, PhD,
- Alexa S. Beiser, PhD,
- Gregory D. Lewis, MD,
- Charles DeCarli, MD,
- Ramachandran S. Vasan, MD and
- Sudha Seshadri, MD
- Nicole L. Spartano, PhD,
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NIH T32-HL07224, 2014-2016
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- Jayandra J. Himali, PhD,
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- Alexa S. Beiser, PhD,
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Brooks Cole, Introductory Applied Statistics, 2005
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NIH/NINDS, biostatistician, 2 R01 NS017950-28, 2009-2014 NIH/NIA, biostatistician, 5 R01 AG08122, 2005-2010 NIH/NIA, biostatistician, 2 R01 AG16495, 2005-2010 NIA/NINDS, biostatistician, 1 R01 AG033040-01, 2009-2013 NIH/NHLBI, biostatistician, R01 HL093029-01A1, 2009-2011
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- Gregory D. Lewis, MD,
Sonivie
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Stealth Inc Novartis Pfizer Shape Systems Abbot Vascular
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
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American Heart Association
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- Charles DeCarli, MD,
1) Novartis Pharmaceuticals
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1)Novartis Pharmaceuticals
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National Institutes of Health
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- Ramachandran S. Vasan, MD and
I serve on a Data Safety Monitoring Board for the NIDDK (NIH).
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I serve as an Associate Editor of the journal Circulation and the Editor of Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics
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NHLBI N0125195, PI, 2010 to date. and HHSN268201500001I, PI to date
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- Sudha Seshadri, MD
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Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, Associate Editor since 2005. Stroke: Editorial Board since 2010. Neurology: Editorial Board since 2011.
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- From the Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology (N.L.S., R.S.V.), The Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute (N.L.S.), and Department of Neurology (J.J.H., A.S.B., S.S.), Boston University School of Medicine; the Framingham Heart Study (N.L.S., J.J.H., A.S.B., R.S.V., S.S.); Departments of Biostatistics (A.S.B.) and Epidemiology (R.S.V.), Boston University School of Public Health; Cardiology Division (G.D.L.) and the Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit (G.D.L.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard (G.D.L.), Cambridge, MA; and Department of Neurology and Center for Neuroscience (C.D.), University of California at Davis.
- Correspondence to Dr. Spartano: spartano{at}bu.edu
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