BLSA: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging The purpose of
this study is to learn what happens as people age and how to
sort out changes due to aging from those due to disease or other
causes. |Study Design:||Observational Model: Cohort| |Official
Title:||Longitudinal Studies of Human Physiology, Biochemistry,
and Psychology| Whole blood, serum, white cells, urine |Study
Start Date:||June 1957| |Estimated Study Completion
Date:||December 2016| |Estimated Primary Completion
Date:||December 2016 (Final data collection date for primary
outcome measure)| The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
(BLSA) is a multidisciplinary observational study of the
physiological and psychological aspects of human aging and
diseases and conditions that increase with age. Information from
the BLSA may help to define strategies to improve quality of
life in old age and prevent and delay loss of independence. The
BLSA is the NIA's major clinical research program in human aging
that has been conducted in Baltimore since 1958. T