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Researchers to study heart, lung disease in Franklin Parish
Seven hundred people from Franklin and Assumption parishes will be recruited for a new health study researching the effects of heart and lung disease in southern rural communities.
LSU’s Pennington Research Center Assists in Study Looking at Why Some RURAL Southerners Live Longer and Healthier Lives
Researchers from LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center and other institutions will study why some people in rural parishes and counties live longer, healthier lives. Doctor Stephanie Broyles will lead the Louisiana portion of the study and they’ll look at two parishes, Assumption and Franklin
RURAL Study to Examine Health Burdens in the South
People born in rural communities in the South, especially in southern Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta, may live shorter and less healthy lives than their counterparts elsewhere in the country, in part due to a high burden of HLBS disorders.
New Study at UMMC to Explore Disease Risk Factors in Rural South
In an effort to understand why people born in rural communities in the South live shorter and less healthy lives than their counterparts elsewhere in the same counties as well as across the country, researchers from the University of Mississippi Medical Center and partner institutions today announced the launch of... More
Q&A: What’s driving health issues in rural America?
A newly launched study called RURAL, from researchers behind the long-running Framingham Heart Study, will follow 4,000 participants over the next six years in 10 low-income counties in Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi to better understand the factors driving conditions like diabetes and obesity that disproportionately affect people in the South.
UMMC study to explore why rural Mississippians die younger than others
In an effort to understand why people born in rural communities in the South live shorter and less healthy lives than their counterparts elsewhere in the same counties as well as across the country, researchers from the University of Mississippi Medical Center and partner institutions today announced the launch of... More
UVA Study: Why are those born in the rural South less healthy, prone to die sooner?
A researcher from the UVA School of Medicine is helping to lead a new study to understand why people born in rural communities in the South live shorter and less healthy lives than their counterparts elsewhere in the country.
Study aims to learn why people in the rural South are less healthy, die sooner
Why people in rural communities in the South live shorter and less healthy lives than those who reside elsewhere in the United States is the focus of a new national study that will be based at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
U of L To Participate In New Four-State Study On Rural Health Outcomes
The University of Louisville is participating in a new study that’s expected to give answers about health conditions in the rural communities of Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Framingham Heart Study Inspires Researchers to Hit the Road
To find out the answer, the researchers will travel by custom van, built as a mobile examination unit, to examine 4,000 study participants over the course of six years in 10 counties across Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.