Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies
Initiatives
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The SLAS is a community-based longitudinal epidemiologic study that aims to increase the understanding of ageing and health, and the factors that influence the ageing process. SLAS seeks to identify the cognitive, biomedical, lifestyle and behavioral, as well as psychosocial risk and protective factors that affect the transition from healthy ageing to functional impairment, illness and death.
- Start Year
- 2003
- Funding
- National University (Singapore)
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Participants are revisited on a 3-yearly follow up
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 6,183
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Over 55 years old
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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