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The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities StudyThe ZARAgoza DEMentia DEPression projectEPIPortoThe 1970 British Cohort StudyNext StepsThe Malaysian Health and Adolescents Longitudinal Research Team studyLifeGeneNurses’ Health Study (NHS) IIThe Confucius Hometown Aging Project1958 National Child Development Study
Cohort acronymARICZARADEMPEPIPortoBCS70Next StepsMyHeARTLifeGeneNHSIICHAPNCDS
Cohort TypeGeneral population-based cohortGeneral population-based cohortGeneral population-based cohortGeneral population-based cohortGeneral population-based cohortGeneral population-based cohortGeneral population-based cohortGeneral population-based cohortGeneral population-based cohortGeneral population-based cohort
DiseaseAlzheimer's disease | Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) | Parkinson's disease | Type of dementia/ND not specified | Vascular dementiaAlzheimer's disease | Dementia (unclassified) | Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) | Parkinson's disease | Subjective memory complaints (SMC) or subjective cognitive decline (SCD) | Vascular dementiaN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AMild cognitive impairment (MCI) | Subjective memory complaints (SMC) or subjective cognitive decline (SCD)N/AN/A
Participant typeNo diagnosisAt-risk diagnosisN/ANo diagnosisNo diagnosisNo diagnosisNo diagnosisNo diagnosisNo diagnosisNo diagnosis
Recruitment period1987-198919911999-200301/04/197020042012N/A19892010-20111958
Sample size at start15,7924,8022,48517,20016,1221,361250,000116,4301,48017,415
Estimated current sample size7,4001,500N/A9,84115,629N/A52,107N/A8509,790
Age at recruitment45-64>5518-92013-141318-5025-42>600
GenderMale and FemaleMale and FemaleMale and FemaleMale and FemaleMale and FemaleMale and FemaleMale and FemaleFemaleMale and FemaleMale and Female
AbstractARIC is designed to investigate the etiology and natural history of atherosclerosis, the etiology of clinical atherosclerotic diseases, and variation in cardiovascular risk factors, medical care and disease by race, gender, location, and date.The ZARADEMP project (ZARAgoza DEMentia
DEPression project) was designed as a longitudinal,
community-based study to examine the incidence
of dementia and the risk factors in incident cases of
dementia.		It is a population-based cohort study, ongoing for over 15 years, with the main aim of assessing the determinants of health in the adult population of Porto.The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) follows the lives of more than 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1970.The study began in 2004 and included all young people in Year 9, aged between 13 and 14, who attended state and independent schools in England.The MyHeART study is longitudinal cohort study of 1361 schoolchildren (13-years old) attending 15 public secondary schools from the central (Kuala Lumpur and Selangor) and northern (Perak) regions of Peninsular MalaysiaThe study includes studying several hundred thousand Swedes with the aim of creating new tools to prevent, diagnose and treat our most common diseases.The Nurses' Health Study II (NHS II) was established by Dr. Walter Willett and colleagues in 1989 with funding from the National Institutes of Health to study oral contraceptives, diet, and lifestyle risk factors in a population younger than the original NHS cohort.The Confucius Hometown Aging Project (CHAP) is a longitudinal study of vascular risk factors, ageing, and health in people aged 60 years or older who live in a rural community near Qufu (hometown of Confucius), Shandong, China.The National Child Development Study (NCDS) is a longitudinal study which follows the lives of 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1958.
Institute nameUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillN/AISPUP - Public Health Institute of the University of PortoUniversity College, LondonUniversity College, LondonUniversity of MalayaKarolinska InstitutetBrigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard School of Public HealthJining Medical UniversityCentre for Longitudinal Studies
Websitehttp://www2.cscc.unc.edu/aric/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21848704http://ispup.up.pt/research/research-structures/cohorts/http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/page.aspx?&sitesectionid=795&sitesectiontitle=Welcome+to+the+1970+British+Cohort+Studyhttp://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/page.aspx?&sitesectionid=1246&sitesectiontitle=Welcome+to+the+Longitudinal+Study+of+Young+People+in+England+https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4251135/https://www.lifegene.se/http://www.nurseshealthstudy.org/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3895010/http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/ncds
Principal investigatorJacqueline WrightProfessor Antonio LoboHenrique BarrosAlice SullivanDr Lisa CalderwoodMajid Abdul HazreenNancy PedersenHeather Eliassen and Walter WillettChengxuan Qiu; Zhongrui YanProfessor Alissa Goodman
Contact emailPI email: jacqueline.wright@nih.gov; Contact email: david_couper@unc.edu; kim_ring@unc.edualobo@unizar.eshbarros@med.up.ptclsfeedback@ioe.ac.uk; PI email: alice.sullivan@ucl.ac.ukl.calderwood@ucl.ac.ukHazreen.abdulmajid@gmail.comnancy.pedersen@ki.senhs2@channing.harvard.edu; PI email: walter.willett@channing.harvard.edu; heather.eliassen@channing.harvard.educhengxuan.qiu@ki.seclsfeedback@ioe.ac.uk
Contact phone number919-962-3229; 919-962-3096N/A+351 222 061 82044 (0) 2076126875+44 (0)20 7612 6875N/A+46-8-524 874 18617-525-2279N/A+44 (0)20 7612 6875
AddressARIC Study Coordinating Center:
PI: Dr. David Couper; Project Director: Ms. Kim Ring
Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center
Department of Biostatistics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
123 W. Franklin Street, Suite 450
Chapel Hill, NC 27516		Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Medicina, Psiquiatría,
C/ Domingo Miral s/n, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain		EPIUnit, Institute of Public Health, University of Porto, Porto, PortugalCentre for Longitudinal Studies
UCL Institute of Education
20 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AL		Centre for Longitudinal StudiesCentre for Population Health (CePH) and Department of Social & Preventive Medicine,
Faculty of Medicine,
University of Malaya,
50603 Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia		Director of LifeGene project and Professor in Genetic Epidemiology at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska InstitutetNurses' Health Study II
Channing Division of Network Medicine
181 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115		Aging Research Center, Department of Neurobiology, Health Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet-Stockholm University, Stockholm, SwedenCentre for Longitudinal Studies
Institute of Education
20 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AL
Funders (core support)National Institutes of Health (NIH)Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spanish Ministry of HealthFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Foundation for Science and Technology)Economic and Social Research Council.Department of Education|Economic and Social Research CouncilN/ASwedish Research Council|Karolinska Institutet|AFA Försäkring|Ragnar and Torsten Söderberg's foundationsNational Institute of Health (NIH)|National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)|Breast Cancer FoundationDepartment of Science and Technology and the Department of Health of Shandong Province, the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong ProvinceEconomic and Social Research Council
CognitiveN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Functional RatingIndividual psychologicalIndividual psychologicalIndividual psychologicalIndividual psychologicalIndividual physiological | Individual psychologicalN/AN/AIndividual physiological | Individual psychologicalIndividual physiological | Individual psychologicalIndividual physiological | Individual psychological
AnthropometricBlood pressure | Height | Hip circumference | Waist circumference | WeightBlood pressure | Height | WeightBlood pressure | Height | Hip circumference | Waist circumference | WeightBlood pressure | Height | Hip circumference | Waist circumference | WeightHeight | WeightBlood pressure | Height | Hip circumference | Waist circumference | WeightBlood pressure | Height | Hip circumference | Waist circumference | WeightBlood pressure | Height | Hip circumference | Waist circumference | WeightBlood pressure | Height | Waist circumference | WeightBlood pressure | Height | Hip circumference | Waist circumference | Weight
PhysicalN/AN/ACardiovascular | Musculoskeletal | Reproductive | RespiratoryCardiovascular | Hearing and Vision | Musculoskeletal | Reproductive | RespiratoryHearing and Vision | ReproductiveMusculoskeletalCardiovascular | Hearing and Vision | Musculoskeletal | Reproductive | RespiratoryCardiovascular | Hearing and Vision | Musculoskeletal | Reproductive | RespiratoryCardiovascular | Hearing and Vision | Musculoskeletal | Reproductive | RespiratoryCardiovascular | Hearing and Vision | Musculoskeletal | Reproductive | Respiratory
Biological samplesCardiovascular | Hearing and vision | Musculoskeletal | Reproductive | RespiratoryN/ABloodBloodN/ABloodBlood | SalivaBlood | UrineBloodBlood | Saliva
GenotypingGene screeningN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AGene screeningGene screeningN/AGene screening
Brain imagingMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) | Positron emission tomography (PET) - amyloidMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI)N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Brain bankingN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
LifestyleAlcohol | Dietary habits | Physical activity | SmokingAlcohol | Physical activity | SmokingAlcohol | Dietary habits | Physical activity | SmokingAlcohol | Dietary habits | Physical activity | SmokingAlcohol | Dietary habits | Physical activity | SmokingAlcohol | Dietary habits | Physical activity | SmokingAlcohol | Dietary habits | Physical activity | SmokingAlcohol | Dietary habits | Physical activity | SmokingAlcohol | Dietary habits | Physical activity | SmokingAlcohol | Dietary habits | Physical activity | Smoking
Socio-economicEducation | Ethnic group | Family circumstances | Informal support | Martial status | Occupation and employmentEducation | Ethnic group | Family circumstances | Housing and accommodation | Informal support | Martial status | Occupation and employmentEducation | Ethnic group | Family circumstances | Housing and accommodation | Income and finances | Informal support | Martial status | Occupation and employment | Unpaid careEducation | Ethnic group | Family circumstances | Housing and accommodation | Income and finances | Informal support | Martial status | Occupation and employment | Unpaid careEducation | Ethnic group | Family circumstances | Housing and accommodation | Income and finances | Informal support | Martial status | Occupation and employment | Unpaid careEthnic group | Family circumstancesEducation | Family circumstances | Housing and accommodation | Income and finances | Martial status | Occupation and employmentEthnic group | Housing and accommodation | Informal support | Martial status | Occupation and employmentEducation | Ethnic group | Family circumstances | Housing and accommodation | Income and finances | Informal support | Martial status | Occupation and employmentEducation | Ethnic group | Family circumstances | Housing and accommodation | Income and finances | Informal support | Martial status | Occupation and employment | Unpaid care
Health service utilisationFormal health and social care service utilisation including private careN/AFormal health and social care service utilisation including private careFormal health and social care service utilisation including private careN/AN/AFormal health and social care service utilisation including private careFormal health and social care service utilisation including private careN/AN/A
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