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Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI): new data resources for addressing aging in India

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The Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI), the largest national health and retirement study in the world, released its wave 1 microdata earlier this year. The principal investigators of LASI introduce the study and explain how it can advance aging research in India and beyond in response to the impending challenges of rapid population aging.

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This project is funded by the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, the USA (R01 AG042778, 2R01 AG051125 and U01AG065958), and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (T22011/02/2015-NCD). The authors thank J. Adams and A. Agarwal for helpful editorial and research assistance. The authors would also like to acknowledge P. Arokiasamy’s role and contribution as one of the original co-PIs of LASI, from its inception through his retirement in August 2020.

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  2. International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India

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  3. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Bloom, D.E., Sekher, T.V. & Lee, J. Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI): new data resources for addressing aging in India. Nat Aging 1, 1070–1072 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-021-00155-y

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