Join University of Colorado Boulder integrative physiologist Doug Seals for a discussion about cardiovascular health and healthy aging on Wednesday, March 19 at 7 p.m. at the Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce Street.
The event, “You’re Only as Old as Your Arteries,” is free and open to the public.
Seals is professor of distinction in integrative physiology at CU-Boulder and professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus. He has more than 15 years of research experience studying the biological and lifestyle factors that influence vascular aging.
Seals’ primary research interest is in establishing lifestyle and pharmacological strategies that delay physiological dysfunction and prevent age-associated chronic degenerative diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in modern societies.
“Advancing age is the primary risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, and this is largely attributable to dysfunction and disease of the arteries,” he said. “This presentation will summarize my work studying vascular aging.”
Seals will address:
— The challenges of population aging for society,
— Adverse changes to arteries with aging and their role in cardiovascular diseases,
— Why our arteries “age,”
— Tips for promoting healthy arterial aging, and
— The future of biomedical research on healthy aging strategies.
The program is jointly sponsored by the Louisville Public Library and the Office for University Outreach as part of CU at the Library. For more information about the program, contact outreach@colorado.edu.