China Hainan Centenarian Cohort Study: study design and preliminary results
10.3760/cma.j.issn.0254-6450.2017.09.029
- VernacularTitle:中国海南百岁老人队列研究:研究设计及初步结果
- Author:
Yao HE
1
;
Fuxin LUAN
;
Yao YAO
;
Shanshan YANG
;
Hengge XIE
;
Jing LI
;
Miao LIU
;
Jianhua WANG
;
Lei WU
;
Qiao ZHU
;
Xiaoping CHEN
;
Chaoxue NING
;
Luning WANG
;
Xiaoying LI
;
Sibing ZHANG
;
Fu ZHANG
;
Yali ZHAO
Author Information
1. 中国人民解放军总医院老年医学研究所 北京市衰老及相关疾病重点实验室
- Keywords:
Centenarian;
Cohort study;
Longevity;
Biobank
- From:
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology
2017;38(9):1292-1298
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate the health status,functional ability,mental psychology,health care and other longevity-related characteristics of individuals aged ≥ 100 years as well as risk factors in Hainan province,China.Methods China Hainan Centenarian Cohort Study (CHCCS) is a community-based,prospective cohort study to establish multi-dimensional database consisting of questionnaire findings,anthropometric parameters and biological specimens as well as imaging features.With the household registration information provided by the Department of Civil Affairs of Hainan province,a baseline survey was conducted in centenarians in 18 counties in Hainan with the oldest old in 5 counties as controls between 2014 and 2017.The survey included face to face interview,physical examination and biological specimen collection.After the baseline survey,the participants of CHCCS were followed up at an interval of 2 years to collect the information about their living status,disease status or major death causes.Results According to the information provided by the Department of Civil Affairs of Hainan province in 2014,the survey found that 1 473 centenarians were still living.By December 2016,1 002 of them had agreed to be surveyed.The average age of 722 centenarians with complete information in the baseline survey was (102.7± 2.7) years,the majority of them were females (83.0％),widows (88.8％),in Han ethnic group (84.5％),lived with family members (87.8％),illiterates (89.7％) and farmers (81.0％).Conclusion CHCCS has provided longevity-related information of the large longevity population and collected the valuable and rare biological specimens with great urgency to establish an interdisciplinary platform and base for longevity,senility and healthy aging research.
