The National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) are a set of surveys conducted by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to gather information at multiple points in time on the labor market activities and other significant life events of several cohorts of men and women. The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NSLY) consists of the NLSY79 cohort (nationally-representative sample of 12,686 14-22 year olds)...

The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of adolescents in grades 7-12 in the United States during the 1994-1995 school year. Add Health combines longitudinal survey data on respondents' social, economic, psychological and physical well-being with contextual data on the family, neighborhood, community, school, friendships,...

The Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) was a longitudinal cohort study which investigated the natural history of knee osteoarthritis across the spectrum of the disease through the collection of imaging, biochemical, genetic, and risk markers of knee OA. Measures included knee symptoms and function (evaluated using the West Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC) and the Knee injury and...

This dataset consists of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth waves of a multi wave panel survey that studied newly licensed registered nurses who obtained their first license to practice between September 1, 2004 and August 31, 2005. It was conducted as part of the RN Work Project, a national study of new nurses funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The survey was conducted in...

The Human Epilepsy Project (HEP) is a multi-institutional series of prospective, observational studies to identify factors that predict disease outcome, progression, and treatment response among participants with epilepsy. HEP, conducted between 2012 and 2020, included 488 participants aged 12 to 60 years old with new onset focal epilepsy recruited in Australia, Canada, and the United States. Participants...

Since 2002, the Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group (IMCG) at Perlmutter Cancer Center has maintained one of the largest clinicopathologic resources, the Melanoma Clinicopathological-Biospecimen Database and Repository, for research on patients 18 years old and over with melanoma or at high risk for melanoma. Clinical data is stored in a secure REDCap database which contains 653 fields to...

The Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) Study examines risk factors for heart disease among South Asians of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepali, and Sri Lankan descent in the United States to guide preventative measures and future treatments. Beginning in 2010, eligible South Asian participants between the ages of 40 and 80 were recruited from the San Francisco...

Diagnostics, Imaging, and Genetics Network for the Objective Study and Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (DIAGNOSE CTE) was a longitudinal multi-site study of diagnostic methods for CTE and potential risk factors for the disease. The primary objectives of the study are to collect and analyze neuroimaging and fluid biomarkers for the detection of CTE during life, characterize its clinical...

The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study (MOST) is an ongoing longitudinal study which aims to identify novel and modifiable biomechanical factors (e.g., physical activity), bone and joint structural factors (assessed through knee MRI), and nutritional factors that are associated with the onset and progression of osteoarthritis (OA)-related knee symptoms and radiographic knee OA. A secondary aim is to...