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How long will the study continue?

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This is a long-term study. The initial 5 years of funding ends in 2006. During this period the important work of enrolling the members and collecting the baseline lifestyle data takes place. We then expect to receive another 5 years’ of funding to mainly ascertain health outcomes and disease events in our population. But the study has the potential to go on for 15 or 20 years and make important contributions in many areas of health.

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The Nun Study is an ongoing, one-of-a-kind resource for the study of brain diseases in the elderly. We expect that data, tissue, and genetic material collected in this study will be used by scientists for decades into the future.

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