Healthy Ageing and Biomarkers Cohort Study (HABCS): a cohort profile.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey Biomarkers Cohort (Healthy Ageing and Biomarkers Cohort Study (HABCS)) was established to investigate the determinants of healthy aging and mortality among the oldest old in China. Besides collecting health status, behavioural and sociodemographic circumstances, the present study also gathers comprehensive data for the elderly by simultaneously collecting, detecting, analysing blood and urine, respectively.

Participants

HABCS is a community-based longitudinal multiwave study of older men and women aged 65 or above. Baseline survey and the follow-up surveys with replacement for deceased elderly were conducted in eight longevity areas in China, which cover the northern, middle and southern parts of China. Between 2008 a

SUBMITTER: Lv Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6797363 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature