{"id":264847,"date":"2026-02-03T03:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/264847\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T03:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:11:14","slug":"nottingham-health-study-volunteers-go-from-sofa-to-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/264847\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham health study volunteers go from sofa to scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The CHAIN study is particularly focussed on improving the lives of older people with many spending their final years in poor health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teams worked across the University of Nottingham&#8217;s Schools of Life Sciences, Medicine and Physics. That allowed volunteers to spend hours at a time inside the huge MRI scanner and will give researchers a new view on how exercise affects people. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The journey of discovery is going to be so exciting for us,&#8221; said Dr Abhishek Sheth. &#8220;We&#8217;ll be able to know what happens in response to the changing activity levels to the brain, the heart, the muscle, how the body is changing in its make-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All of this is going to provide us with really good information in order to potentially inform health policy in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CHAIN study is particularly focussed on improving the lives of older people with many spending their final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[565,134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-264847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}