What is it about?

In almost 1500 healthy women and men over 60 years, up to one hundred of medical laboratory analyses were performed: initially to establish reference intervals and later on to follow the study participants with their health status. Tracking aging and health status at the provincial level of the Midlands in Switzerland

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Why is it important?

Identification of biomarkers as risk for later upsurge of particular diseases

Perspectives

We believe that we here work on the biology of senescence. We may even be of interest for the pharmaceutical industry which performs research on gerontoprotector drugs, longevity extending drugs and drugs reversing senescence

Professor Urs Ernest Nydegger
University of Bern

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This page is a summary of: SENIORLAB, Medicine, January 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health,
DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000005726.
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