Abstract

In 1995 -1996, the study mailed a questionnaire to 3.5 million AARP members, aged 50-71 years, who resided in one of six states (California, Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Louisiana) or in two metropolitan areas (Atlanta, Georgia and Detroit, Michigan). The questionnaire included a dietary section as well as lifestyle questions. Over 560,000 people returned the questionnaire satisfactorily, making this the largest in-depth study of nutrition and health ever conducted. In 1996-1997, the study mailed participants another questionnaire asking asked more detailed questions about lifestyle and health behavior. In 2004-2006 a follow-up questionnaire was mailed to update the information on selected risk factors and obtain non-cancer outcomes. The participants have been followed through the State Cancer Registry database to identify incident cancers and Social Security Administration Death Master File and National Death Index to identify cause-specific mortality. To maintain contact with the participants, the study have sent an annual newsletter containing the latest research and news about the study.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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Investigator-Initiated Intramural Research Projects (ZIA)
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1ZIACP010196-09
Application #
9154213
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Support Year
9
Fiscal Year
2015
Total Cost
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  Institution

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Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
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  Publications

Ordóñez-Mena, J M; Walter, V; Schöttker, B et al. (2018) Impact of prediagnostic smoking and smoking cessation on colorectal cancer prognosis: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from cohorts within the CHANCES consortium. Ann Oncol 29:472-483
Xiao, Qian; Keadle, Sarah K; Berrigan, David et al. (2018) A prospective investigation of neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation and physical activity and sedentary behavior in older adults. Prev Med 111:14-20
Wang, ShaoMing; Freedman, Neal D; Loftfield, Erikka et al. (2018) Alcohol consumption and risk of gastric cardia adenocarcinoma and gastric non-cardia adenocarcinoma: A 16-year prospective analysis from the NIH-AARP Diet and Health cohort. Int J Cancer :
Arem, Hannah; Matthews, Charles E (2018) Importance of both increasing physical activity and reducing sitting time. Br J Sports Med :
Yu, Danxia; Zheng, Wei; Johansson, Mattias et al. (2018) Overall and Central Obesity and Risk of Lung Cancer: A Pooled Analysis. J Natl Cancer Inst 110:831-842
Stolzenberg-Solomon, Rachael Z; Katki, Hormuzd A (2018) Is the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Dietary Modification Associated With a Reduced Risk of Pancreatic Cancer? J Natl Cancer Inst 110:
Schmid, Daniela; Behrens, Gundula; Arem, Hannah et al. (2018) Pre- and post-diagnosis physical activity, television viewing, and mortality among hematologic cancer survivors. PLoS One 13:e0192078
Zhang, Y; Zhuang, P; He, W et al. (2018) Association of fish and long-chain omega-3 fatty acids intakes with total and cause-specific mortality: prospective analysis of 421 309 individuals. J Intern Med :
Arem, Hannah; Loftfield, Erikka; Saint-Maurice, Pedro F et al. (2018) Physical activity across the lifespan and liver cancer incidence in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study cohort. Cancer Med 7:1450-1457
Etemadi, Arash; Abnet, Christian C; Graubard, Barry I et al. (2018) Anatomical subsite can modify the association between meat and meat compounds and risk of colorectal adenocarcinoma: Findings from three large US cohorts. Int J Cancer 143:2261-2270

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