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Cohort: German Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study on Adult Development and Aging
Website: https://www.maelstrom-research.org/mica/study/ilse
Risk Factors: Physical Activity

Introduction to the Cohort
The German Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study on Adult Development and Aging (ILSE) is a prospective longitudinal cohort study that began in 1993 and continues today. This population was born between 1950 and 1952 and resided in East and West Germany at the start of the study. Participants were randomly selected and recruited on the basis of community
registers which comprise data on all inhabitants
of German communities. This recruitment procedure
resulted in a representative sample of 1002 participants for the respective communities. Participants have been followed up since 1993/94 for an average time of 12 years within three examination waves (1993/94, 1997/98, 2005/07).

Ethnicity Breakdown
The cohort is a representative sample of German men and women recruited from centers in East (Leipzig and Rostock) and West Germany (Heidelberg, Bonn and Erlangen-Nuremberg). No other information on ethnicity or race has been reported.

Diagnosis & Evaluation Methods
For a detailed description, see Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study on Adult Development and Aging (ILSE).

References
Sattler, C., Wahl, H.-W., Schröder, J., Kruse, A., Schönknecht, P., Kunzmann, U., Braun, T., Degen, C., Nitschke, I., Rahmlow, W., Rammelsberg, P., Siebert, J. S., Tauber, B., Wendelstein, B., Zenthöfer, A. (in press). Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study on Adult Development and Aging (ILSE). In N. Pachana (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Geropsychology: New York: Springer.