Piccolo Rebecca S, Araujo Andre B, Pearce Neil, McKinlay John B
Institute for Health Services and Disparities Research, New England Research Institutes, Watertown, MA, USA and Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Int J Epidemiol. 2014 Feb;43(1):42-51. doi: 10.1093/ije/dys198. Epub 2012 Dec 5.
The Boston Area Community Health (BACH) Survey is a community-based, random sample, epidemiologic cohort of n = 5502 Boston (MA) residents. The baseline BACH Survey (2002-05) was designed to explore the mechanisms conferring increased health risks on minority populations with a particular focus on urologic signs/symptoms and type 2 diabetes. To this end, the cohort was designed to include adequate numbers of US racial/ethnic minorities (Black, Hispanic, White), both men and women, across a broad age of distribution. Follow-up surveys were conducted ∼5 (BACH II, 2008) and 7 (BACH III, 2010) years later, which allows for both within- and between-person comparisons over time. The BACH Survey's measures were designed to cover the following seven broad categories: socio-demographics, health care access/utilization, lifestyles, psychosocial factors, health status, physical measures and biochemical parameters. The breadth of measures has allowed BACH researchers to identify disparities and quantify contributions to social disparities in a number of health conditions including urologic conditions (e.g. nocturia, lower urinary tract symptoms, prostatitis), type 2 diabetes, obesity, bone mineral content and density, and physical function. BACH I data are available through the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Central Repositories (www.niddkrepository.org). Further inquiries can be made through the New England Research Institutes Inc. website (www.neriscience.com/epidemiology).
波士顿地区社区健康（BACH）调查是一项基于社区的随机抽样流行病学队列研究，研究对象为5502名波士顿（马萨诸塞州）居民。BACH调查基线研究（2002 - 2005年）旨在探究导致少数族裔健康风险增加的机制，特别关注泌尿系统体征/症状和2型糖尿病。为此，该队列研究设计纳入了足够数量的美国不同种族/族裔少数群体（黑人、西班牙裔、白人），涵盖不同性别，年龄分布广泛。约5年后（BACH II，2008年）和7年后（BACH III，2010年）进行了随访调查，这使得能够进行个体内和个体间随时间的比较。BACH调查的测量指标旨在涵盖以下七个广泛类别：社会人口统计学、医疗保健获取/利用、生活方式、心理社会因素、健康状况、身体测量指标和生化参数。这些广泛的测量指标使BACH研究人员能够识别差异，并量化在包括泌尿系统疾病（如夜尿症、下尿路症状、前列腺炎）、2型糖尿病、肥胖症、骨矿物质含量和密度以及身体功能等多种健康状况下社会差异的影响因素。BACH I的数据可通过美国国立糖尿病、消化和肾脏疾病研究所（NIDDK）中央储存库（www.niddkrepository.org）获取。进一步的咨询可通过新英格兰研究所公司网站（www.neriscience.com/epidemiology）进行。
