NEW ORLEANS, La. (NOLA NOW) - The Bogalusa Heart Study is one of the longest epidemiological investigations in the United States since 1973.
The Bogalusa Heart study began with data collection and evaluations of children’s daily routines, meals, and physical activity, to find a link between age and development of heart disease.
“The study was amongst the first to suggest that heart disease could began in childhood, and that really challenged the thinking in the 1970’s when the study began," Dr. Lydia Bazzano said.
This study tracks childhood risk factors that may play a crucial part in adulthood. It also helps to identify different health disparities between races. These research efforts have been pivotal in examining how early life exposures and behaviors effect health across an individual’s lifetime.
Pennington Biomedical Research Center has joined to help provide measurements of brain health.
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Dr. Owen Carmichael with the Pennington Biomedical Research Center says now that some of the participants are older, they’re wondering if heart conditions developed during childhood or adulthood could grow into bad effects on the brain such as Alzheimer’s as they get older.
Researchers with the Tulane Bogalusa Heart Study are looking for individuals who may have participated in the heart study to reach out so they can speak with them.
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