Biodemography Services

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Biodemography Data and Resources

Large studies/datasets relevant to biodemography:

• National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
  
  
• MacArthur Successful Aging Study
  
  
• Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (CARDIA)
  
  
• The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health)
  
  
• Social and Environmental Biomarkers of Aging Study (SEBAS)
  
  
• Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS)
  
  
• National Population Health Survey (NPHS)
  
  
• Whitehall Civil Servants Study
  During 1967 and 1969 data was collected for all major risk factors, particularly employment status, on 17,530 male civil servants in London.
  Whitehall links:
  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/whitehallII/
  http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Source.asp?vlnk=1327&More=Y
  
  
• Framingham Heart Study
  
  
• Hypertension Detection and Follow-up Program
  also http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00000485
  
  
• Women’s Health Initiative (WHI)
  
  
• Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN)
  
  
• Melbourne Women’s Midlife Health Project (MWMHP)
  
  
• Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS)
  
  
• The Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
  
  
• California Health Interview Survey
  
  
• National Survey of Children's Health Data Resource Center
  
  
• ICPSR
  
  
• NACDA
  
  
• SEBAS
  
  
• MIDUS II
  
  
• NIH Virtual Repository
  
  
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
  
  

National Institutes of Health resources for biodemography:

• A list of the many institutes, centers, and offices that make up the National Institutes of Health
  http://www.nih.gov/icd/
  
  
• National Institutes of Aging links that may be of interest to biodemographers
  http://www.nia.nih.gov/ResearchInformation/ScientificResources/"
  
  
• National Cancer Institute research resources
  
  
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Population Studies Database
  http://apps.nhlbi.nih.gov/popstudies
  
  
• NIH service providing information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers.
  http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/
  
  
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood institute datasets
  http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00000485
  
  
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases list of AIDS-related data sets
  http://www.niaid.nih.gov/daids/aidsdata.htm
  
  
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s Alcohol Epidemiologic Data Directory
  http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/datasys.htm
  
  
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development research resources
  http://www.nichd.nih.gov/resources/resources.htm
  
  
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s list of large public-use surveys
  http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/cpr/dbs/res_ss_large.htm
  
  
• NIA Demography of Aging Centers Network on Measurement of Biological Risk’s list of studies using biomarkers
  http://www.usc.edu/dept/gero/CBPH/biomarker/studies.htm
  
  

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resources for biodemography:

• CDC National Center for Health Statistics Data Warehouse
  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh.htm
  
  
• CDC National Center for Health Statistics Surveys and Data Collection Systems
  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/express.htm
  
  

See Also:

• CSDE Computer Core Data Archive