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Emiel O Hoogendijk1, Dorly J H Deeg2, Sascha de Breij2, Silvia S Klokgieters2, Almar A L Kok2,3, Najada Stringa2, Erik J Timmermans2, Natasja M van Schoor2, Elisabeth M van Zutphen2,3,4, Marleen van der Horst2, Jan Poppelaars2,5, Priyanta Malhoe2, Martijn Huisman2,5.
Abstract
The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA) is a prospective cohort study of older adults in the Netherlands, initially based on a nationally representative sample of people aged 55-84 years. The study has been ongoing since 1992, and focuses on the determinants, trajectories and consequences of physical, cognitive, emotional and social functioning. Strengths of the LASA study include its multidisciplinary character, the availability of over 25 years of follow-up, and the cohort-sequential design that allows investigations of longitudinal changes, cohort differences and time trends in functioning. The findings from LASA have been reported in over 600 publications so far (see www.lasa-vu.nl). This article provides an update of the design of the LASA study and its methods, on the basis of recent developments. We describe additional data collections, such as additional nine-monthly measurements in-between the regular three-yearly waves that have been conducted among the oldest old during 2016-2019, and the inclusion of a cohort of older Turkish and Moroccan migrants.Entities:
Keywords: Aging; Cohort studies; Epidemiology; Genotyping data; Longitudinal studies; Netherlands; Older migrants; Study design
Year: 2019 PMID： 31346890 DOI： 10.1007/s10654-019-00541-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur J Epidemiol ISSN： 0393-2990 Impact factor: 8.082