Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Initiatives
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NICOLA was set up to - explore why and how certain social, economic and biological factors are changing the lives of older people - to understand how health, lifestyle, financial circumstances and wellbeing change with age - to understand what it is like to grow older in Ireland.
- Start Year
- 2012
- Funding
- UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health Northern Ireland, The Atlantic Philanthropies,Northern Ireland Public Health Agency Research and Development Office (HSC R&D), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC),Medical Research Council (MRC), Northern Ireland Executive Office,Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI),The Wellcome Trust and The Wolfson Foundation and Queen’s University Belfast
- Supplementary Information
- https://nicola.qub.ac.uk/sites/NICOLA/FileStore/Filetoupload
Visit NICOLA
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Our aim is to monitor these individuals and examine how their health, lifestyle, financial circumstances and overall wellbeing changes over the next 10 years.
Marker Paper
McCann, P., Hogg, R. E., Azuara-Blanco, A., Young, I., & Kee, F. (2017). Factors influencing circumpapillary retinal nerve fibre layer thickness (cRNFLT) in Northern Ireland Cohort Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA) study. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 58(8), 3136-3136.
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 8,500
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- People from across Northern Ireland
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
On the study website : https://nicola.qub.ac.uk/sites/NICOLA/AboutNICOLA/