IGF::CT::IGF HANDLS HOME VISIT PROGRAM

跨生命周期社区健康老龄化（HANDLS）研究是一项跨学科、基于社区的前瞻性纵向流行病学研究，旨在探讨种族和社会经济地位（SES）对巴尔的摩不同社会经济背景的非裔美国人和白人年龄相关健康差异发展的影响。这项研究调查了健康差异是否由于社会经济地位的差异、种族的差异或它们的相互作用而发展或持续。这项研究是独一无二的，因为它将评估超过20年的生理参数，以及评估遗传、生物、人口统计学和社会心理参数，非裔美国人和白人参与者在较高和较低的社会地位阶层。它还采用新颖的研究工具，即移动医疗研究车辆，以期提高少数民族和贫困城市研究参与者的参与率和保留率。HANDLS研究的领域包括：营养、认知、生物标志物、身体成分和骨骼质量、神经解剖学、肾脏病学、健康和金融知识、身体功能和表现、社会人口统计学、社会心理、社区环境和心血管疾病。利用这些研究领域的数据将有助于研究人员了解在总体寿命、心血管疾病和认知能力下降方面持续存在的黑白健康差异背后的驱动因素。

The Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS) study is an interdisciplinary, community-based, prospective longitudinal epidemiologic study examining the influences of race and socioeconomic status (SES) on the development of age-related health disparities among socioeconomically diverse African Americans and whites in Baltimore. This study investigates whether health disparities develop or persist due to differences in SES, differences in race, or their interaction. This study is unique because it will assess over a 20-year period physical parameters as well as evaluate genetic, biologic, demographic, and psychosocial, parameters of African American and white participants in higher and lower SES strata. It also employs novel research tools, mobile medical research vehicles, in hopes of improving participation rates and retention among minority and poor urban research participants. The domains of the HANDLS study include: nutrition, cognition, biologic biomarkers, body composition and bone quality, neuroanatomy, nephrology, health and financial literacy, physical function and performance, sociodemographics, psychosocial, neighborhood environment and cardiovascular disease. Utilizing data from these study domains will facilitate researchers understanding of the driving factors behind persistent black-white health disparities in overall longevity, cardiovascular disease, and cognitive decline.