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United States National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project, Wave 2, 2010-2011

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General Info
Geography 
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
08/2010 - 05/2011
Series or system 
United States National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP)
Data type
Survey:
  • Exam
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Longitudinal
  • Nationally representative
Summary 

The United States National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) is a nationally representative survey that provides information on the health and wellbeing of adults age 57-85 residing in the United States. For Wave 2 of the NSHAP, 3,377 men and women were successfully interviewed. Topics covered in the survey include: sexual behavior, health status, education attainment, and social support

The following biometric tests, measurements, and samples were taken:

  • Anthropometrics: Height, weight, hip and waist circumference
  • Cardiovascular function: Blood pressure, pulse, heart rate variability
  • Physical performance: Timed walk, chair stands
  • Actigraphy: Actigraphy watch
  • Sensory function: Smell
  • Biological sample collection: Blood spot, blood tube, saliva sponge, saliva tube, urine, and vaginal swab
  • Genetic analysis: Oragene
Keywords 
Age at first sex, Aged adults, Alcohol use, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, Anthropometry, Assets, Back pain, Biopsy, Birth place, Bladder cancer, Blood pressure, Blood tests, Body mass index, Brain and nervous system cancers, Breast cancer, COPD, Cancers, Cardiovascular surgical procedures, Cervix uteri cancer, Childhood sexual violence, Circumcision, Cognitive assessment, Colon and rectum cancers, Community health clinics, Corpus uteri cancer, Corrective lenses, Dental caries, Diabetes, Digital rectal examinations, Disability, Drug consumption, Education, Emergency care, Employment, Ethnicity, Falls, Family composition, Gallbladder and biliary tract cancers, General surgery, Health care access, Health care use, Health facilities, Health insurance, Health status, Hearing aids, Hearing loss, Heart failure, Height, Hospitals, Housing, Hypertension, Hysterectomy, Income, Incontinence, Injuries, Internet, Interpersonal violence, Ischemic heart disease, Kidney and other urinary organ cancers, Larynx cancer, Leisure activities, Leukemia, Limited mobility, Live births, Liver cancer, Living conditions, Marital status, Medicines, Menstruation, Mental health symptoms, Military service, Mobility aids, Mouth cancer, Musculoskeletal diseases, Neck pain, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Nursing homes, Oesophagus cancer, Osteoporosis, Outpatient facilities, Ovary cancer, Pain, Pancreas cancer, Pap smears, Parkinson's disease, Personal caregivers, Pharynx cancers, Physical activity, Pregnancy, Prostate cancer, Prostheses and implants, Pulse, Race, Radiation therapy, Religion, Reproductive and sexual risk factors, Screening mammography, Sexual behavior, Sexual sterilization, Skin cancers, Skin diseases, Sleep, Stomach cancer, Stroke, Thyroid cancer, Tobacco smoking, Trachea, bronchus, and lung cancers, Urine tests, Violence, Weight