TY - JOUR
T1 - The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam
T2 - cohort update 2019 and additional data collections
AU - Hoogendijk, Emiel O
AU - Deeg, Dorly J H
AU - de Breij, Sascha
AU - Kok, Almar A L
AU - Stringa, Najada
AU - Timmermans, Erik J
AU - van Schoor, Natasja M
AU - van Zutphen, Elisabeth M
AU - van der Horst, Marleen
AU - Poppelaars, Jan
AU - Malhoe, Priyanta
AU - Huisman, Martijn
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Aging
KW - Cohort studies
KW - Epidemiology
KW - Genotyping data
KW - Longitudinal studies
KW - Netherlands
KW - Older migrants
KW - Study design
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-019-00541-2
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-019-00541-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 31346890
SN - 0393-2990
VL - 35
SP - 61
EP - 74
JO - European Journal of Epidemiology
JF - European Journal of Epidemiology
IS - 1
ER -
