{"id":5777,"date":"2012-12-02T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/?p=5777"},"modified":"2021-08-24T01:18:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T01:18:24","slug":"researcher-praises-efforts-of-home-town-wonthaggi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/researcher-praises-efforts-of-home-town-wonthaggi\/","title":{"rendered":"Researcher praises efforts of home town Wonthaggi"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Local GP and medical practice support for ASPREE recognised<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Local Wonthaggi girl, Dr Sharyn Fitzgerald\u00a0recently travelled back to her home town to present plaques of appreciation to medical centres on behalf of a world-first international research trial.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>More than 100 healthy people aged 70 and over from the Wonthaggi region have enrolled in the ASPREE (<strong>ASP<\/strong>irin in\u00a0<strong>R<\/strong>educing\u00a0<strong>E<\/strong>vents in the\u00a0<strong>E<\/strong>lderly) since the trial began in the area in May this year. Most participants had heard about the study from their GP.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The plaques are to recognise and thank\u00a0staff at the Wonthaggi Medical Group and South Gippsland Family Medicine for supporting the trial.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"\/aus\/about-us\/\">Dr Fitzgerald<\/a>, a scientific researcher, who is based at Monash University in Melbourne, is not at all surprised at the community interest in healthy ageing research.<br \/>\u201cI grew up in Wonthaggi \u2013 it has always been a community-minded town from its earliest days when the mines started.\u00a0It is really great to see that the spirit of being involved and giving back to the community continues today with the total support that we have been shown by the practices and their patients,\u201d said Dr Fitzgerald, who as a Regional Manager, oversees seven <a href=\"\/aus\/site-locations\/\">clinical trial centres<\/a> in regional Victoria.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cI was really excited when I found out that ASPREE would be recruiting participants in my hometown and the level of interest from the community has well and truly exceeded our expectations. We are still keen to include more local people in the study and anyone interested can speak to their local doctor. \u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\">\r\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\r\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1154\" height=\"1732\" class=\"wp-image-5784\" src=\"https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/STST2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5784\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/STST2.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/researcher-praises-efforts-of-home-town-wonthaggi\/stst2\/\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/STST2.jpg 1154w, https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/STST2-980x1471.jpg 980w, https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/STST2-480x720.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1154px, 100vw\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">South Gippsland Family Medicine<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\r\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1732\" height=\"1154\" class=\"wp-image-5783\" src=\"https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/SGST1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5783\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/SGST1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/researcher-praises-efforts-of-home-town-wonthaggi\/sgst1\/\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/SGST1.jpg 1732w, https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/SGST1-1280x853.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/SGST1-980x653.jpg 980w, https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/SGST1-480x320.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) 1732px, 100vw\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Wonthaggi Medical Group<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\"><em>Above: ASPREE regional manager, Dr Sharyn Fitzgerald, proudly presented plaques of appreciation to two medical clinics in her hometown of Wonthaggi recently.<\/em><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>ASPREE is the largest GP-based study ever undertaken in Australia. The trial is testing whether aspirin can prevent the onset of cardiovascular disease, dementia and certain cancers and will, for the first time, weigh the potential benefits versus the risks of daily low-dose aspirin in healthy adults aged 70 or more.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>After an initial screening process, ASPREE participants are randomly assigned to take 100mg of aspirin or a placebo (dummy) tablet daily and undergo annual health checks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Dr Fitzgerald said ASPREE appealed to people because participation in the study required little effort and it was one of the few trials to bring international research to regional and rural communities.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The trial aims to enrol 16,000 Australians. Over 9,000 older people from metropolitan and regional Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, the ACT and parts of NSW are currently enrolled in ASPREE.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>ASPREE would like to thank the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgst.com.au\/\">South Gippsland Sentinal Times<\/a>\u00a0for permission to reproduce these photographs on our website.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sharyn Fitzgerald, ASPREE regional manager, is not at all surprised at her hometown Wonthaggi&#8217;s interest in healthy ageing research. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5973,"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":[72,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777"}],"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=5777"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8531,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777\/revisions\/8531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}