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 Our Participating Studies |
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Our participating studies include those studies conducted at the University of Pittsburgh of older people that collect data on mobility and balance and potentially other physical, cognitive and environmental measures relevant to mobility.
The Pepper Center is currently preparing an inventory of measures of mobility and balance used across these different studies.
Rakie Cham
Biomechanics of Slips in Older Adults
Contact: April Chambers
Stephanie Studenski
Clinical Global Impression of Change in Frailty
Mark Redfern
Postural Control in the Elderly: The Role of Attention
Joseph Furman
Vestibulo-Ocular Function in the Elderly
Contact: Anita Lieb
Stephanie Studenski
Neurobiological and Postural Control Mechanisms Underlying Risk of Fall
Jane Cauley
Fractures in Older Women: Study of Osteoporotic Fractures
Project website: www.keeptrack.ucsf.edu
Jane Cauley
Osteoporotic Fractures in Men
MrOS Study
Lewis Kuller
Cardiovascular Health Study
Project website: chs.nhlbi.org
Anne Newman
The Health, Aging and Body Composition Study
Health ABC
Project website: www.keeptrack.ucsk.edu/habc
Anne Newman
Physical Exercise to Prevent Disability Pilot Study
Debra Weiner
Functional Impact of PENS for 65+: Evaluating Functional Impacts
Contact: Lori Gaston Thiry
Debra Weiner
Osteopuncture for OA-Associated Knee Pain and Disability
Contact: Haley Spears
Jennifer Brach
Gait Variability: Epidemiology, Assessment and Management
Contact: Jennifer Brach, PhD, PT, CGS
Anne Newman
Exceptional Aging: 12 Year Trajectories to Function
CHS All Stars Study
Project website: chs-nhlbi.org
Anne Newman
Families of Cohort Survivors over 90 - Study Center
Long Life Family Study (LLFS)
Project website: www.biostat.wustl.edu/~elfs
Lewis Kuller
Center for Healthy Aging (CHA)
A CDC Prevention Research Center
Project website: www.healthyaging.pitt.edu
Susan Greenspan
Once Weekly Bisphosponate Therapy for Prevention of Osteoporosis in Hypogonadal Men with Prostate Cancer on Androgen Deprivation Therapy:
The POP Study
Steven Albert
Cognitive and Physical Sources of Disablement in Older Adults
Project website: BCHS Faculty Info
Contact: Steven Albert, PhD, MSPH
Myrna Silverman
Process of Self-Care: Comparison of African-Americans and Whites
C. Kent Kwoh
University of Pittsburgh Clinical Center for the Osteoarthritis Initiative
Contact: Stephanie Green |
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