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Aging and Alzheimer's disease: lessons from the Nun Study.
Sister Mary, the gold standard for the Nun Study, was a remarkable woman who had high cognitive test scores before her death at 101 years of age. What is more remarkable is that she maintained this high status despite having abundant neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques, the classic lesions of Alzheimer's disease. Findings from Sister Mary and all 678 participants in the Nun Study may pro...
متن کاملHealthy aging and dementia: findings from the Nun Study.
The Nun Study is a longitudinal study of 678 Catholic sisters 75 to 107 years of age who are members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame congregation. Data collected for this study include early and middle-life risk factors from the convent archives, annual cognitive and physical function evaluations during old age, and postmortem neuropathologic evaluations of the participants' brains. The cas...
متن کاملHealthy ageing in the Nun Study: definition and neuropathologic correlates.
BACKGROUND Although the concept of healthy ageing has stimulated considerable interest, no generally accepted definition has been developed nor has its biological basis been determined. OBJECTIVE To develop a definition of healthy ageing and investigate its association with longevity and neuropathology. METHODS Analyses were based on cognitive, physical, and post-mortem assessments from 199...
متن کاملTrends in mortality in older women: findings from the Nun Study.
During this century, Catholic sisters have remained constant in many life-style characteristics such as smoking and reproduction (Catholic sisters are nonsmoking and nulliparous). It is therefore of interest to compare trends in the health of elderly Catholic sisters to those in the general population. In this study, mortality rates at ages 50 to 84 years in a population of 2,573 Catholic siste...
متن کاملRetinal vascular caliber, iris color, and age-related macular degeneration in the Irish Nun Eye Study.
PURPOSE To evaluate the relationship between retinal vascular caliber (RVC), iris color, and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in elderly Irish nuns. METHODS Data from 1233 participants in the cross-sectional observational Irish Nun Eye Study were assessed from digital photographs with a standardized protocol using computer-assisted software. Macular images were graded according to the m...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: New Blackfriars
سال: 1921
ISSN: 0028-4289,1741-2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-2005.1921.tb02835.x