McDowell I, Hill G, Lindsay J
Department of Epidemiology & Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Int Psychogeriatr. 2001;13 Supp 1:7-18. doi: 10.1017/s1041610202007949.
The Canadian Study of Health and Aging is a multicenter, population-based cohort study of dementia with a sample of 10,263 participants aged 65 or over. Field work began in 1991, and a follow-up study was undertaken in 1996-97. The present article describes the origins and objectives of the study, provides an overview of its design, organization, and data collection methods, and offers a brief summary of the main results.
加拿大健康与老龄化研究是一项基于人群的多中心痴呆症队列研究,样本包括10263名65岁及以上的参与者。实地调查于1991年开始,并于1996 - 1997年进行了随访研究。本文描述了该研究的起源和目标,概述了其设计、组织和数据收集方法,并简要总结了主要结果。