Deriving life-course residential histories in brain bank cohorts: A feasibility study

DISCUSSION: This novel method demonstrates feasibility, reproducibility, and rigor for historic data collection. To our knowledge, this is the first study to show that public data tracing methods for brain bank decedent residential history development can be used to better integrate the social exposome with biobank specimens.HIGHLIGHTS: Public data tracing compares favorably to survey-based residential history. Public data tracing is feasible and reproducible between archivists. Archivists achieved 89.7% agreement at the address level. This method identifies residences for nearly 80% of life-years, on average. This novel method enables brain banks to add social characterizations.PMID:38497250 | DOI:10.1002/alz.13773
Source: The Journal of Alzheimers Association - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research