Principal Investigator
Marcia Scazufca
Instituto de Psiquiatri LIM-23, Hospital das Clinicas da faculdade de Medicina da universidade de São Paulo, Rua Ovidio Pires de Campos 785, CEP 05403-010, São Paulo - SP, Brazil
Email: scazufca@gmail.com
Data Contact
Marcia Scazufca
Email: scazufca@gmail.com
Summary
| Setting: | São Paulo, Brazil |
| Start Date: | May 2003 |
| End Date: | 2008 |
| Participants: | 2072 individuals aged 65+ years |
| Assessment Schedule: | 2-year interval (one follow-up in 2005) |
| Measures: |
(1) Neuropsychiatric assessments of dementia, MCI, and cognitive decline; (2) Assessments of other mental disorders; (3) Broad range of sociodemographic, lifestyle and cardiac, physical and mental health factors; (4) Assessments of migraine, falls, and osteoporosis; (5) Blood samples and genotyping; (5) Subgroup with MRI scans (structural and functional). |
Further Information
- Scazufca & Seabra. Sao Paulo portraits: ageing in a large metropolis. Int J Epidemiol 2008;37:721-3.
- Scazufca et al. High prevalence of dementia among older adults from poor socioeconomic backgrounds in São Paulo, Brazil. Int Psychogeriatr 2008;20:394-405.
- Scazufca et al. Risk factors across the life course and dementia in a Brazilian population: results from the Sao Paulo Ageing & Health Study (SPAH). Int J Epidemiol 2008; 37:879-90.
