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• Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Medical Center, Memphis (Principal Investigator: William C. Cushman, M.D.)


• University of Alabama at Birmingham (Principal Investigator: Suzanne Oparil, M.D.)


• University of Utah, Salt Lake City (Principal Investigator: Alfred K. Cheung, M.D.)


• Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston‐Salem, N.C. (Principal Investigator: David C. Goff, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.)


• The coordinating center for the study is Wake Forest Baptist (Principal Investigator: David Reboussin, Ph.D.).


The NHLBI plans, conducts, and sup‐ ports research related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases; and sleep disorders. The


Institute also administers national health education campaigns on women and heart disease, healthy weight for children, and other topics. NHLBI press releases and other materials are avail‐ able online at www.nhlbi.nih.gov. The NIDDK conducts and supports basic and clinical research and research training on some of the most common, severe and disabling conditions affect‐ ing Americans. The Institute's research interests include diabetes and other endocrine and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases, nutrition, and obesi‐ ty; and kidney, urologic and hemato‐ logic diseases. For more information, visit www.niddk.nih.gov.


The NIA leads the federal govern‐ ment effort conducting and supporting research on the biomedical, social and behavioral issues of older people. For more information on aging‐related research and the NIA, go to www.nia.nih.gov. The NIA provides information on age‐related cognitive


change and neurodegenerative disease specifically at its Alzheimer’s Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) Center site, www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers. The NINDS (www.ninds.nih.gov) is the nation’s leading funder of research on the brain and nervous system. The NINDS mission is to reduce the burden of neurological disease — a burden borne by every age group, by every segment of society, by people all over the world.


The National Institutes of Health (NIH) — The Nation's Medical Research Agency — includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a compo‐ nent of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and sup‐ porting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov. EMS


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