Cardiovascular risk factors, living and ageing in Halle: the CARLA study

Autor: Lamiaa Hassan, Ljupcho Efremov, Anne Großkopf, Nadja Kartschmit, Daniel Medenwald, Artjom Schott, Andrea Schmidt-Pokrzywniak, Maria E. Lacruz, Daniel Tiller, Frank Bernhard Kraus, Karin H. Greiser, Johannes Haerting, Karl Werdan, Daniel Sedding, Andreas Simm, Sebastian Nuding, Alexander Kluttig, Rafael Mikolajczyk
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: European Journal of Epidemiology
ISSN: 1573-7284
0393-2990
Popis: The CARLA study (Cardiovascular Disease, Living and Ageing in Halle) is a longitudinal population-based cohort study of the general population of the city of Halle (Saale), Germany. The primary aim of the cohort was to investigate risk factors for cardiovascular diseases based on comprehensive cardiological phenotyping of study participants and was extended to study factors associated with healthy ageing. In total, 1779 probands (812 women and 967 men, aged 45–83 years) were examined at baseline (2002–2005), with a first and second follow-up performed 4 and 8 years later. The response proportion at baseline was 64.1% and the reparticipation proportion for the first and second follow-up was 86% and 77% respectively. Sixty-four percent of the study participants were in retirement while 25% were full- or partially-employed and 11% were unemployed at the time of the baseline examination. The currently running third follow-up focuses on the assessment of physical and mental health, with an intensive 4 h examination program, including measurement of cardiovascular, neurocognitive, balance and gait parameters. The data collected in the CARLA Study resulted in answering various research questions in over 80 publications, of which two thirds were pooled analyses with other similar population-based studies. Due to the extensiveness of information on risk factors, subclinical conditions and evident diseases, the biobanking concept for the biosamples, the cohort representativeness of an elderly population, and the high level of quality assurance, the CARLA cohort offers a unique platform for further research on important indicators for healthy ageing. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10654-021-00824-7.
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