{"id":5599,"date":"2014-03-07T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/?p=5599"},"modified":"2021-08-23T02:54:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T02:54:28","slug":"unlocking-the-key-to-ageing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/unlocking-the-key-to-ageing\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking the Key to Ageing"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ASPREE PI editorial in this week&#8217;s \u2018Medical Observer\u2019 \u00a0<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>ASPREE Principal Investigator in Australia, Professor <a href=\"\/aus\/about-us\/\">John McNeil<\/a> discusses what the findings of ASPREE trial may mean to future health care.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>\u201cCurrently, it is not known if\u00a0low-grade inflammation is a cause\u00a0or consequence of the diseases of\u00a0ageing. If ASPREE shows lower\u00a0incidence of disease and disability\u00a0among those with reduced inflammatory markers, it will suggest\u00a0inflammation as a potential cause\u00a0of these conditions. This will be a\u00a0key finding and may lead to the\u00a0prophylactic use of anti-inflammatory\u00a0agents in older people<\/em>,<em>&#8220;<\/em> writes Prof McNeil.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Ageing-Jean-Hailes-Foundation_7_Feb_2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1478\" height=\"697\" class=\"wp-image-5601\" src=\"https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Image-for-JHF-article-in-MO.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Image-for-JHF-article-in-MO.jpg 1478w, https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Image-for-JHF-article-in-MO-1280x604.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Image-for-JHF-article-in-MO-980x462.jpg 980w, https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Image-for-JHF-article-in-MO-480x226.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1478px, 100vw\" \/>\r\n<figcaption>Above: Prof John McNeil&#8217;s recent editorial about inflammation, aspirin and ageing in the Medical Observer.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>ASPREE would like to sincerely thank the Jean Hailes Foundation for facilitating this article and for their\u00a0<a href=\"\/aus\/about-us\/funding-and-collaborators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">support<\/a>\u00a0for this very important study.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof John McNeil, Principal Investigator to ASPREE in Australia pens an article about inflammation, aspirin and ASPREE in the GP publication, &#8216;Medical Observer&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1200","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[28,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5599"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8498,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions\/8498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}