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Deborah Preston
Huntington, WV
Working With Dr. Eric R. Blough,
Visit Deborah's webpage here: http://mupfc.marshall.edu/~preston28
Deborah Preston is a 38 year old non-traditional Biology Major
originally from Niagara Falls, NY. She now resides in Huntington, WV
and has called the Huntington area home for more than 10 years. She is
expanding her SURE research this year to include cardiovascular disease
in the aged. Cardiovascular disease is responsible for more than 30%
of all deaths worldwide and is the number one cause of death in the
rapidly growing population of elderly individuals. Recent data
suggests that cardio-protective agents which act as antioxidants may be
helpful in preventing or reversing the affects of normal age related
cardiovascular disease. Her work this summer is aimed at determining
if a specific medication is helpful in preventing or reversing
age-related cardiac dysfunction. It is anticipated that the results
from this work may be useful in justifying other studies designed to
help identify whether the antioxidant therapy may be an effective
treatment strategy to combat age-associated cardiovascular disease
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