IGF::CT::IGF HANDLS HOME VISIT PROGRAM

健康老龄化在社区的多样性在整个生命周期（HANDLS）的研究是一个跨学科的，以社区为基础的，前瞻性的纵向流行病学研究，研究种族和社会经济地位（SES）的发展与年龄相关的健康差异之间的社会经济多样化的非洲裔美国人和白人在巴尔的摩的影响。本研究调查是否健康差距的发展或持续，由于社会经济地位的差异，种族的差异，或它们的相互作用。这项研究是独一无二的，因为它将评估超过20年的物理参数，以及评估遗传，生物，人口统计学和心理社会，参数的非裔美国人和白色参与者在较高和较低的SES阶层。它还采用了新颖的研究工具，移动的医学研究工具，希望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、身体成分和骨质、神经解剖学、肾脏学、健康和财务知识、身体功能和表现、社会人口统计学、心理社会学、邻里环境和心血管疾病。利用这些研究领域的数据将有助于研究人员了解黑人与白人在整体寿命、心血管疾病和认知能力下降方面持续存在健康差异的驱动因素。

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.