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BOSTON – The country's longest running multigenerational study on cardiovascular disease has received a $ 38 million grant that will help researchers explore the biology of aging.
The six-year grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to the Framingham Heart Study was announced Tuesday.
Boston University, which administers this 71-year-old study since 1971, said in a statement that the grant would be used to study liver fat, platelet function, stiffness, heart and large vessels participants .
The funding also allows for ongoing maintenance of study operations and badysis of data.
The study, which dates back to 1948, has been the source of many breakthroughs, including the contribution of smoking to the risk of heart disease, the benefits of physical activity and the risk posed by obesity.
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