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Healthy Ageing across the Life Course
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Healthy Ageing across the Life Course

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This interdisciplinary collaborative programme aims to identify how healthy ageing is affected by factors operating across life using data from nine UK cohort studies.
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General Information

Year created
2008
Types of cohorts
  • Population cohort
Countries
  • United Kingdom
Setting
National
Funding
This project received funding from the New Dynamics of Ageing, coordinated by the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council - ESRC (2008-2014) (RES-353-25-0001)
Criteria of cohort's to be included
The project focus on studies based in the UK with life course data and specific ageing outcomes measured in midlife or old age and/or repeat measures of capability in later life
Socio-environmental context
  • NA

Participants

Number of participants

Total
40,000

Age range of the samples

Minimum age
50
Maximum age
90

Methodology for harmonization and integration

Strategy of harmonization
Ex-post
Data processing methods
  • NA
    • Type of infrastructure
    Some centrally, other locally
    Integrative data analysis
    • Meta-analyses
    • Pooled analyses
    Software
  • Stata
    • Supplementary information
    Examples of outputs from this collaborative project: Alfred T, Ben-Shlomo Y, Cooper R, Hardy R, Cooper C, Deary IJ, Elliott J, Gunnell D, Harris SE, Kivimaki M, Kumari M, Martin RM, Power C, Sayer AA, Starr JM, Kuh D, Day IN; HALCyon Study Team. Associations between APOE and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol genotypes and cognitive and physical capability: the HALCyon programme. Age (Dordr). 2014;36(4):9673. doi: 10.1007/s11357-014-9673-9. Epub 2014 Jul 30. Birnie K, Cooper R, Martin RM, Kuh D, Aihie Sayer A, Alvarado BE, Bayer A, Christensen K, Cho S, Cooper C, Corley J, Craig L, Deary IJ, Demakakos P, Ebrahim S, Gallacher J, Gow AJ, Gunnell D, Haas S, Hemmingsson T, Inskip H, Jang S, Noronha K, Osler M, Palloni A, Rasmussen F, Santos-Eggimann B, Spagnoli J, Starr J, Steptoe A, Syddall H, Tynelius P, Weir D, Whalley LJ, Zunzunegui MV, Ben-Shlomo Y, Hardy R on behalf of the HALCyon study team. Childhood socioeconomic position and objectively measured physical capability levels in adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS ONE 2011; 6(1):e15564. Cooper R et al. Age and Gender Differences in Physical Capability Levels from Mid-Life Onwards: The Harmonisation and Meta-Analysis of Data from Eight UK Cohort Studies. PlosOne, 2011, Volume 6, Issue 11, e27899 Cooper R, Stafford M, Hardy R, Aihie Sayer A, Ben-Shlomo Y, Cooper C, Craig L, Deary IJ, Gallacher J, McNeill G, Starr JM, Kuh D and Gale CR on behalf of the HALCyon study team Physical capability and subsequent positive mental wellbeing in older people: findings from five HALCyon cohorts. AGE 2014;36:445-456 Gardner MP, Martin-Ruiz C, Cooper R, Hardy R, Sayer AA, Cooper C, Deary IJ, Gallacher J, Harris SE, Shiels PG, Starr JM, Kuh D, von Zglinicki T, Ben-Shlomo Y and the HALCyon study team. Telomere length and physical performance at older ages:an individual participant meta-analysis. PLoS One 2013 8(7): e69526 Hardy R, Cooper R, Aihie Sayer A, Ben-Shlomo Y, Cooper C, Deary IJ, Demakakos P, Gallacher J, Martin RM, McNeill G, Starr JM, Steptoe A, Syddall H, Kuh D on behalf of the HALCyon study team. Body mass index, muscle strength and physical performance in older adults from eight cohort studies: the HALCyon programme. PLoS One 2013;8(2):e56483

    Number of cohorts

    Total
    9
    With harmonized data
    9
    Will more cohorts be harmonized?

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