Abstract

The Duke Center for Population Health and Aging (CPHA) will continue its highly synergistic interdisciplinary environment to develop faculty in aging and to foster important research breakthroughs, particularly in the overlapping areas of biodemography (i.e. biological and biomedical demography of aging), life course studies of health and well-being across the life span, and intergenerational studies, including the transmission of health and longevity. These activities will be supported by a strong administrative Core that provides central cohesive clerical, technical and research services;programming to support pilot research initiatives and advanced training for doctoral and postdoctoral students;and innovative interinstitutional networks that will enable the continuation of collaboration and training in the region. A key resource to be developed is a statistical data enclave to improve the distribution of useful public data that protect the confidentiality of study subjects.

Public Health Relevance

The CPHA will advance understanding of the determinants of healthy aging and longevity by developing new research areas, supporting and enlarging the world's community of demographic scientists, and developing new mathematical and statistical methods for the analysis of data related to the biodemogaphy of aging as well as data management services.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Type
Center Core Grants (P30)
Project #
2P30AG034424-06
Application #
8743499
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZAG1)
Program Officer
Haaga, John G
Project Start
2009-07-15
Project End
2019-06-30
Budget Start
2014-09-15
Budget End
2015-06-30
Support Year
6
Fiscal Year
2014
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Duke University
Department
Type
Organized Research Units
DUNS #
City
Durham
State
NC
Country
United States
Zip Code
27705

  Publications

Belsky, Daniel W; Moffitt, Terrie E; Cohen, Alan A et al. (2018) Eleven Telomere, Epigenetic Clock, and Biomarker-Composite Quantifications of Biological Aging: Do They Measure the Same Thing? Am J Epidemiol 187:1220-1230
Schaefer, Jonathan D; Moffitt, Terrie E; Arseneault, Louise et al. (2018) Adolescent Victimization and Early-Adult Psychopathology: Approaching Causal Inference Using a Longitudinal Twin Study to Rule Out Noncausal Explanations. Clin Psychol Sci 6:352-371
Kinosian, Bruce; Wieland, Darryl; Gu, Xiliang et al. (2018) Validation of the JEN frailty index in the National Long-Term Care Survey community population: identifying functionally impaired older adults from claims data. BMC Health Serv Res 18:908
Romer, A L; Knodt, A R; Houts, R et al. (2018) Structural alterations within cerebellar circuitry are associated with general liability for common mental disorders. Mol Psychiatry 23:1084-1090
Taylor, Miles G; Lynch, Scott M; Ureña, Stephanie (2018) Race Differences in ADL Disability Decline 1984-2004: Evidence From the National Long-Term Care Survey. J Aging Health 30:167-189
Zheng, Hui; George, Linda K (2018) Does Medical Expansion Improve Population Health? J Health Soc Behav 59:113-132
Marron, Megan M; Singh, Jatinder; Boudreau, Robert M et al. (2018) A novel healthy blood pressure phenotype in the Long Life Family Study. J Hypertens 36:43-53
Zarulli, Virginia; Barthold Jones, Julia A; Oksuzyan, Anna et al. (2018) Women live longer than men even during severe famines and epidemics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 115:E832-E840
Zeng, Yi; Nie, Chao; Min, Junxia et al. (2018) Sex Differences in Genetic Associations With Longevity. JAMA Netw Open 1:
Yashkin, Arseniy P; Kravchenko, Julia; Yashin, Anatoliy I et al. (2018) Mortality and Macrovascular Risk in Elderly With Hypertension and Diabetes: Effect of Intensive Drug Therapy. Am J Hypertens 31:220-227

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