Novara Cohort Study and UPO Biobank: An Italian Biobanking and Multidisciplinary Cohort Project on Aging Research and Healthy Lifespan Promotion

Conference: The European Conference on Aging & Gerontology (EGen2022)
Title: Novara Cohort Study and UPO Biobank: An Italian Biobanking and Multidisciplinary Cohort Project on Aging Research and Healthy Lifespan Promotion
Stream: Lifespan Health Promotion
Presentation Type: Poster Presentation
Authors:
Daniela Capello, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
Chiara Aleni, University of Easten Piedmont, Italy
Annamaria Antona, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
Eleonora Mazzucco, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
Valentina Bettio, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
Fabrizio Faggiano, University of Eastern Piedmont, italy

Abstract:

Lifestyle, environment and personal susceptibility affect the likelihood of experiencing healthy or unhealthy aging. This awareness highlights the strategic need to establish large biological samples and associated data based prospective and cross-sectional epidemiological studies. Framingham and the EPIC studies demonstrated their key contribution in the study of aging. Biobanks have established a critical role in biomedical research, successfully collecting and managing high-quality biological samples and associated information. UPO Biobank is the Institutional Research Biobank of the University of Eastern Piedmont (UPO), Novara (Italy) with both a population based and age-associated disease-oriented commitment. UPO Biobanks is supporting the Novara Cohort Study (NCS), a longitudinal and cross-sectional multidisciplinary cohort study on aging involving at least 10,000 subjects. The study has been designed to fill the gap between the main results of previous cohort studies and the scientific unmet needs on aging. In particular, the NCS project aims promote the participation of citizens, local institutions and stakeholders in public health research. Citizens are engaged in a discussion with scientists on themes of scientific research, health and quality of aging and invited to take part in this prospective study investigating their health and trajectories of aging in association with biological, environmental, life style and socio-economic determinants. Longitudinal data analysis will allow the identification of priority of preventive intervention in collaboration with local health authorities. Biological analysis will contribute to elucidate the molecular mechanism of aging and age-associated diseases. A review of the main achievements of these cohorts will be presented.



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