TY - JOUR
T1 - Cohort Profile: The Berlin aging study II (BASE-II)
AU - Bertram, Lars
AU - Böckenhoff, Anke
AU - Demuth, Ilja
AU - Düzel, Sandra
AU - Eckardt, Rahel
AU - Li, Shu Chen
AU - Lindenberger, Ulman
AU - Pawelec, Graham
AU - Siedler, Thomas
AU - Wagner, Gert G.
AU - Steinhagen-Thiessen, Elisabeth
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - Similar to other industrialized countries, Germany's population is ageing. Whereas some people enjoy good physical and cognitive health into old age, others suffer from a multitude of age-related disorders and impairments which reduce life expectancy and affect quality of life. To identify and characterize the factors associated with 'healthy' vs. 'unhealthy' ageing, we have launched the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II), a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional project that ascertains a large number of ageing-related variables from a wide range of different functional domains. Phenotypic assessments include factors related to geriatrics and internal medicine, immunology, genetics, psychology, sociology and economics. Baseline recruitment of the BASE-II cohort was recently completed and has led to the sampling of 1600 older adults (age range 60-80 years), as well as 600 younger adults (20-35 years) serving as the basic population for in-depth analyses. BASE-II data are linked to the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), a long-running panel survey representative of the German population, to estimate sample selectivity. A major goal of BASE-II is to facilitate collaboration with other research groups by freely sharing relevant phenotypic and genotypic data with qualified outside investigators.
AB - Similar to other industrialized countries, Germany's population is ageing. Whereas some people enjoy good physical and cognitive health into old age, others suffer from a multitude of age-related disorders and impairments which reduce life expectancy and affect quality of life. To identify and characterize the factors associated with 'healthy' vs. 'unhealthy' ageing, we have launched the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II), a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional project that ascertains a large number of ageing-related variables from a wide range of different functional domains. Phenotypic assessments include factors related to geriatrics and internal medicine, immunology, genetics, psychology, sociology and economics. Baseline recruitment of the BASE-II cohort was recently completed and has led to the sampling of 1600 older adults (age range 60-80 years), as well as 600 younger adults (20-35 years) serving as the basic population for in-depth analyses. BASE-II data are linked to the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), a long-running panel survey representative of the German population, to estimate sample selectivity. A major goal of BASE-II is to facilitate collaboration with other research groups by freely sharing relevant phenotypic and genotypic data with qualified outside investigators.
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U2 - 10.1093/ije/dyt018
DO - 10.1093/ije/dyt018
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 23505255
AN - SCOPUS:84902659887
SN - 0300-5771
VL - 43
SP - 703
EP - 712
JO - International Journal of Epidemiology
JF - International Journal of Epidemiology
IS - 3
M1 - dyt018
ER -
