Support from the Office for Nursing Research & Innovation enabled my participation within the sixteenth Intrinsic Capacity, Frailty and Sarcopenia Research Conference for Healthy Longevity. At the assembly, our group introduced two research inspecting way of life and physique composition outcomes amongst older adults with HIV. I introduced the poster “Associations Between Physical Activity and Sarcopenia in Older People With HIV: Findings From the PROSPER-HIV Study,” and our group delivered an oral presentation titled “The Effects of High-Intensity Interval Training vs. Continuous Moderate-Intensity Exercise on Body Composition Among Older Adults with HIV: Secondary Results from the HEALTH Trial.”
These displays included findings from the HEALTH and PROSPER research, each led by Dr. Allison Webel on the University of Washington. The convention introduced collectively main investigators finding out frailty, sarcopenia, and wholesome longevity, offering beneficial alternatives to share our findings and have interaction with researchers engaged on getting older and purposeful decline. Key takeaways included rising approaches to assessing muscle high quality and the rising recognition of bodily exercise as a central technique for preserving bodily operate and selling wholesome getting older.
Vitor Oliveira, PhD
Research Assistant Professor