Depressive symptoms and plasma markers of Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegeneration: a coordinated meta-analysis of 8 cohort studies

The Netherlands Consortium of Dementia Cohorts has performed a meta-analysis with 8 cohort studies to investigate the associations between depressive symptoms later in life and plasma markers for Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegeneration. The Leiden Longevity Study was one of the participating cohorts. The results are published in “The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry” The [...]

By |2024-03-18T17:10:44+01:00March 18th, 2024|Highlighted announcements, News, Papers|Comments Off on Depressive symptoms and plasma markers of Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegeneration: a coordinated meta-analysis of 8 cohort studies
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Healthful plant-based diet associates with greater well-being in older adults

A shift towards a more plant-based diet is promoted as healthy as well as sustainable. Whether this also applies to older adults is however less clear: On one hand plant-based diets may lead to energy deficits among vulnerable older adults and therefore negatively impact well-being. On the other hand, plant-based diets have been found [...]

By |2024-02-19T11:44:21+01:00February 19th, 2024|Archief papers, Highlighted announcements, News, Papers, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Healthful plant-based diet associates with greater well-being in older adults
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Scientific meeting: Modifying Cardio-vascular Ageing: from old cells to elderly patients

Cardiovascular diseases are the major cause of death in the industrial nations especially in the elderly. Therefore, it is of scientific interest which part of the complete risk for cardiovascular diseases is based on cellular ageing in comparison with normal risk factors like smoking or hypercholesterolemia. Thus, it is important to understand the molecular [...]

By |2023-08-09T10:03:13+01:00August 9th, 2023|Highlighted announcements, Meetings, News|Comments Off on Scientific meeting: Modifying Cardio-vascular Ageing: from old cells to elderly patients
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GRONINGEN-JENA AGING MEETING (G-JAM) 2023

We are happy to announce the G-JAM international meeting on aging, which will be held at in Groningen, the Netherlands, from 28-30 September 2023. Free slots are available for talks selected form the abstract submissions. Deadline for submission of abstracts is July 15. Please forward this email to anyone in your group or network [...]

By |2023-07-06T12:52:49+01:00July 6th, 2023|Highlighted announcements, Meetings, News, Nieuws VOILA|Comments Off on GRONINGEN-JENA AGING MEETING (G-JAM) 2023
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Announcement annual meeting of The Dutch Society for Research on Ageing (DuSRA), 2023

Dear all, We are pleased to announce the annual meeting of The Dutch Society for Research on Ageing (DuSRA) that will take place from 15 June till 16 June 2023 at the University Medical Center, Groningen, The Netherlands. Confirmed keynote speakers are: - Mihai Netea (Radboud UMC, Nijmegen), - Collin Ewald (ETH Zürich), and [...]

By |2023-05-11T14:55:44+01:00May 11th, 2023|Meetings, News, Nieuws VOILA|Comments Off on Announcement annual meeting of The Dutch Society for Research on Ageing (DuSRA), 2023
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Dusra Meeting June 15-16, 2023, ERIBA/UMCG/Groningen

We would like to welcome you at the Fifth annual meeting of ‘The Dutch Society for Research on Ageing’ to be held on 15 and 16 June 2023 at University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), The Netherlands. We invite PhD/Postdoc level/junior PI researchers and young scientists to submit abstracts to present their work at the [...]

By |2023-04-25T14:50:35+01:00April 25th, 2023|Meetings, News, Nieuws VOILA|Comments Off on Dusra Meeting June 15-16, 2023, ERIBA/UMCG/Groningen
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A word of caution on the regression to the mean phenomenon in (biological) age prediction

When predicting ‘biological age’, always consider whether regression to the mean could be an issue before drawing conclusions. Marije Sluiskes, Jelle Goeman, Marian Beekman, Eline Slagboom, Hein Putter and Mar Rodríguez-Girondo posted a PubPeer comment (a postpublication peer review platform) to a recent publication of Daunay et al. 2022 (Aging) which didn't consider this. [...]

By |2023-03-10T10:49:06+01:00March 9th, 2023|News|Comments Off on A word of caution on the regression to the mean phenomenon in (biological) age prediction
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Save the date: Annual meeting 2023

SAVE THE DATE   We are happy to announce the DuSRA Annual meeting 2023! To be held on 15 and 16 June 2023 at University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), The Netherlands Details about the program and registration will follow Participation is FREE for members. Membership costs 50 euro per year for senior investigators [...]

By |2023-05-16T10:47:24+01:00February 2nd, 2023|News, Nieuws VOILA|Comments Off on Save the date: Annual meeting 2023
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Prestigious ZonMw Open Competition grant awarded to LUMC, VU and RIVM

Prestigious ZonMw Open Competition grant awarded to LUMC, VU and RIVM Prestigious ZonMw Open Competition grant awarded to LUMC, VU and RIVM Our life expectancy keeps increasing on a global scale. The increase in healthy lifespan, however, is lagging behind. Members of long-lived families often remain disease-free into exceptionally old ages. How is [...]

By |2021-06-29T08:04:33+01:00June 29th, 2021|News, Nieuws VOILA|Comments Off on Prestigious ZonMw Open Competition grant awarded to LUMC, VU and RIVM
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EU-project Rise-Well – cRitIcal Solutions for Elderly WELL-being

The goal of RISE-WELL is to improve SWB and QOL of elderly European citizens to obtain positive individual health outcomes and to promote future translational research. The approach of the consortium has been to design cutting-edge WPs and ESR projects. Scientific need: Mental health and emotional well-being during old age (60+) should be regarded as [...]

By |2021-06-08T08:16:11+01:00June 8th, 2021|Leden in het nieuws, News, Nieuws VOILA|Comments Off on EU-project Rise-Well – cRitIcal Solutions for Elderly WELL-being
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The DuSRA promotes synergy between the fundamental and biomedical ageing research. By encouraging cooperation between fundamental and clinical researchers, the DuSRA seeks to advance the translation of acquired knowledge into clinical treatments.
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