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Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging

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BLAT

Abbreviation for:
Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
BLAST-Like Alignment Tool

Molecular biology
BLAST-Like Alignment Tool. A DNA/protein sequence analysis program to find sequences of ≥ 95% sequence similarity of ≥ 40 bases or more in length. BLAT may miss more divergent or shorter sequence alignments. BLAT on proteins finds sequences of 80% and greater similarity of length 20 amino acids or more.

Clinical trials
Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. A trial which evaluated the effects of nonsustained ventricular tachycardia and arrhythmias on mortality. The BLAT data indicated no new coronary events at 10 years of follow up in 98 older individuals who had no prior clinical evidence of heart disease.
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As part of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, 126 participants underwent yearly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to track brain changes for up to 10 years.
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Corrada of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, presented findings from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Seven-day food and supplement intake information was collected from 579 subjects aged 60 years or older at baseline.
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In the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, which has enrolled about 2,400 subjects, diabetes was diagnosed using the glucose tolerance test in 16% of subjects aged 65-87.
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The first was selected from 681 men over 55 years old who had PSA assays as part of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA).
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"Our vocabularies usually improve, and our ability to reason and solve problems is retained," points out Paul Costa, Jr., of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. "But it's true that many of us need more time to make and execute decisions, and our memories aren't as sharp."
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The studies, NIH's Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA) and the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) study, included more than 1,900 people in total, of all ages and socioeconomic levels.
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