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Healthy Lifespan Institute

At the Healthy Lifespan Institute we're uniting over 140 world-class researchers to tackle the global epidemic of multimorbidity – the presence of two or more chronic conditions – to help everyone live healthier, independent lives for longer and reduce the cost of care.

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14 January 2022

Heart disease causes early brain dysfunction and can treble key Alzheimer’s protein

Heart disease can directly cause brain dysfunction early on which could lead to dementia and can treble the amount of an Alzheimer’s protein in the brain, say scientists.

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10 December 2021

Prof. Ilaria Bellantuono comments on research that finds that grape seed extract has anti-ageing properties in mice

Healthy Lifespan Co-Director, Prof. Ilaria Bellantuono provides a review of new research that identified a component of grape seed extract as a potentially effective senolytic for Medical News Today.

18 November 2021

Healthy Lifespan Institute members amongst founders of new ILC Network in Europe

ILC Europe Network, launching this week, is represented by academics, practitioners, civil society representatives and business leaders with a focus on helping societies address longevity and population ageing in positive and productive ways.

12 November 2021

Understanding the experience of wearing dentures

The Healthy Lifespan Institute at The University of Sheffield, has been awarded £200k from GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Research & Development, UK to study the experiences of people living with removable partial dentures.

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