Funding for the study was provided by Wake Forest School of Medicine, the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, the Parker B. Francis Foundation, the American Thoracic Society Foundation Recognition Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award, the American Heart Association and the National Institute on Aging.
Co-authors are Chun Liu, Sydney Philpott, (degree), Stephanie Lussier, Lina Purcell, Michael Seeds, Ph.D., Peter E. Morris, M.D., and Osvaldo Delbono, M.D., Ph.D., of Wake Forest Baptist; Andrea Pereyra, M.D., of National Scientific and Technical Research Council and School of Medicine, National University of La Plata, Argentina; Neil R.
