POOLING COHORTS ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE TO IDENTIFY NOVEL EARLY-LIFE DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH OUTCOMES IN LATER-LIFE
Katrina Kezios, Scott Zimmerman, Peter Buto, M Maria Glymour, Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri · 2024
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Description
To learn how early life shapes late health, teams can stitch two cohorts: one that holds the early facts, one the late ones. Katrina Kezios and co-authors test that stitch in a 2024 study with a large US old age survey. They split one long survey into fake early and late parts and tried to rebuild it.
People in the two parts were matched on mid life traits. The rebuilt set then gave much the same links between past weight and later health as the full set did. The stitch worked best when both parts held a late read of the early trait or an early read of the health mark. The team now aims the method at fresh early life asks.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Katrina Kezios, Scott Zimmerman, Peter Buto, M Maria Glymour, Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |