Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Feb 5;193(2):241-255. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwad190.
The Korean Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (KSHAP) was a multidisciplinary prospective study conducted in South Korea that measured various health biomarkers from blood, hair, and brain magnetic resonance imaging, and we examined their associations with sociocentric (global) social network data of older adults in 2 entire villages (or cohorts). Cohort K included participants aged 60 years or older, and cohort L included participants aged 65 years or older. We performed a baseline survey involving 814 of the 860 individuals (94.7% response rate) in cohort K in 2012 and 947 of the 1,043 individuals (90.8% response rate) in cohort L in 2017. We gathered longitudinal data for 5 waves in cohort K from 2011 to 2019 and 2 waves in cohort L from 2017 to 2022. Here, we describe for the first time the follow-up design of the KSHAP, the changes in social networks, and various biomarkers over a number of years. The data for cohort K are publicly available via the Korean Social Science Data Archive as well as the project website, and the data for cohort L will be shared soon.
韩国社会生活、健康和老龄化项目（KSHAP）是一项在韩国进行的多学科前瞻性研究，从血液、头发和大脑磁共振成像中测量了各种健康生物标志物，我们研究了它们与老年人社会中心（全球）社交网络数据的关联，这些数据来自两个完整的村庄（或队列）。队列 K 包括 60 岁或以上的参与者，队列 L 包括 65 岁或以上的参与者。我们于 2012 年在队列 K 中对 860 名参与者中的 814 名（94.7%的回复率）进行了基线调查，于 2017 年在队列 L 中对 1043 名参与者中的 947 名（90.8%的回复率）进行了基线调查。我们从 2011 年到 2019 年在队列 K 中收集了 5 波纵向数据，从 2017 年到 2022 年在队列 L 中收集了 2 波纵向数据。在这里，我们首次描述了 KSHAP 的随访设计、社交网络的变化以及多年来的各种生物标志物。队列 K 的数据可通过韩国社会科学数据档案以及项目网站公开获取，队列 L 的数据也将很快共享。
