Cohort Profile: the Health and Retirement Study (HRS).

By Amanda Sonnega, J. Faul, M. Ofstedal, Kenneth M. Langa, J. Phillips, D. Weir. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2014

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The Benefits of Social Technology Use Among Older Adults Are Mediated by Reduced Loneliness (2016, neutral): “The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is a nationally representative and prospective panel study that has surveyed >22,000 Americans aged 50+ every 2 years.(29,30) The current study reports on psychological, health, and covariate data collected in 2012.”
Multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association summary statistics using MTAG (2018, positive): “We again used the HRS and Add Health cohorts as our prediction samples (and obtained the SNP effect estimates for SWB from the analyses that omitted HRS from the discovery sample).”
Heterogeneity in polygenic scores for common human traits (2017, neutral): “Using the Health and Retirement Study (8) (HRS) we examine PGSs and their bootstrapped distributions for four traits height (stdHeight), body mass index (BMI), educational attainment (with SNP weights from two separate GWAS performed in 2013 (EA 2013) and 2016 (EA 2016)), and depression (MDD)) estim”
Associations among relational values, support, health, and well‐being across the adult lifespan (2017, neutral): “HRS is a nationally representative and prospective panel study that has surveyed more than 22,000 Americans aged 50+ every 2 years (Sonnega et al., 2014).”