# Core B- Biostat Core

> **NIH NIH P01** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · 2022 · $455,655

## Abstract

Abstract
Overview: The Sedentary Time and Aging Research (STAR) Program Biostatistics Core B will provide unified
support for informatics and statistical needs across the three STAR Projects. The core will implement best
practices for data collection and management, and apply rigorous statistical methods for data analysis. The
Specific Aims are to provide comprehensive informatics support and data management, enhance
communication, and to conduct data analysis and develop novel statistical approaches applicable across
STAR projects.
Informatics: The Biostatistics Core will coordinate and support database development and maintenance for all
STAR Projects. The core will undertake extensive data validation, standardized monitoring and reporting
across STAR Projects, including protocol compliance, form completion, accrual reporting, automated interim
data quality checks, locking and documenting of finalized study data sets. Patient confidentiality will be
protected. The STAR informatics system, hosted at the UCSD Supercomputer center, is HIPAA compliant.
Statistical Analysis: The Biostatistics Core will provide rigorous unified statistical expertise, implementing
best practices to analyze data across the three STAR Projects including intent-to-treat principles, longitudinal
data analysis, and missing data methods. In addition, the Biostatistics core will develop and apply novel state-
of-the-art statistical methods, pertinent to all three STAR Projects, including methods for modeling multiple
longitudinal behavioral, biomarker, and health outcomes.
New Methodology: Leveraging objective biomarker and 24-hour accelerometer measures, the Biostatistics
Core will integrate data across STAR Projects, and test supplemental aims. We will identify temporal patterns
of health behaviors (sedentary behavior, physical activity, sleep) in postmenopausal women, and ascertain if
these patterns change after participation in the intervention trials. Also, we will develop algorithms to identify
“responders”, i.e., participants with the greatest improvement in biomarker profiles in the intervention trials. We
believe these supplemental aims could elucidate if/how health behavior accumulation (e.g., long versus
interrupted bouts of sedentary behavior or physical activity) impact health outcomes, and provide prediction
rules to identify likely “responders,” which could inform design of future trials and tailor interventions to
participant needs to best effect successful behavior change and improve health.
Impact. In summary, the STAR Biostatistics Core will provide a sound, robust and reproducible framework for
supporting the overall objective of the STAR Projects: to enhance scientific knowledge of and examine the
biobehavioral efficacy of interventions to interrupt sedentary behavior in a diverse sample of postmenopausal
women. We expect that STAR program findings will ultimately inform public health recommendations for
healthy living.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10207389
- **Project number:** 5P01AG052352-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
- **Principal Investigator:** Loki Natarajan
- **Activity code:** P01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $455,655
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-07-01 → 2025-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10207389

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10207389, Core B- Biostat Core (5P01AG052352-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10207389. Licensed CC0.

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