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The Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) is a national longitudinal study of adults 50 years and older in Mexico.  

The baseline survey, with national and urban/rural representation of adults born in 1951 or earlier, was conducted in 2001 with follow-up interviews in 2003, 2012, 2015, 2018 and 2021.

The MHAS (Mexican Health and Aging Study) is partly sponsored by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging (grant number NIH R01AG018016) in the United States and the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) in Mexico.

Our Collaborators

University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), Mexico

Instituto Nacional de Geriatría, Mexico

Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP), Mexico

Columbia University, New York

University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

University of Southern California (USC)

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV)

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)

Arizona State University (ASU)

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