Washington Heights Inwood and Columbia Aging Project
Initiatives
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To provide information concerning the development of Alzheimer disease and to carefully examine the contributions of cardiovascular risk factors and stroke.
*Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.*
- Start Year
- 1992
- End Year
- 1999
- Funding
- Supported by federal grants from the NIH (AG07232 and AG08702), by the Charles S. Robertson Memorial Gift for Research on AD, and by the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Foundation.
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- clinical assessments were completed at approximately 24-month intervals over the 7-year study period.
Marker Paper
Tang MX, Cross P, Andrews H, Jacobs DM, Small S, Bell K, Merchant C, Lantigua R, Costa R, Stern Y, Mayeux R. Incidence of AD in African-Americans, Caribbean Hispanics, and Caucasians in northern Manhattan. Neurology, 2001; 56(1): 49-56.DOI: 10.1212/wnl.56.1.49
PUBMED 11148235
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 2,126
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Over 65 years old.
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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