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Table 1 Baseline assessment in AugUR

From: The German AugUR study: study protocol of a prospective study to investigate chronic diseases in the elderly

Category

Item

Instrument

Method/apparatus used

General factors

Age, sex, ethnicity, martial status

Q

Interview

 

Education, profession

Q

Interview

 

Nutritional habits

Q

Interview

 

Smoking, alcohol consumption

Q

Interview

 

Light exposure

Q

Interview

Quality of life

Subjective health status, general condition

Q

Interview

Anthropometry

Height, weight

P

Measuring station

and fitness

Waist and hip circumferences

P

Measuring tape

 

Hand grip strength

P

Dynamometer

 

Physical activity

Q

Interview

Medication

Current medication intake

Q

Interview

Ophthalmological

Eye diseases and eye injuries

Q/P

Interview, DRS, OCT

Phenotyping

Ocular fundus

P

DRS, OCT

 

Visual acuity

P

ETDRS, Amsler

Cardiovascular

Cardiovascular diseases

Q

Interview

Phenotyping

Blood pressure, pulse rate

P

Automatic device

 

Ankle-brachial index

P

Vascular Explorer

 

Aortic pulse wave velocity

P

Vascular Explorer

 

Augmentation index

P

Vascular Explorer

 

Left/right ventricular mass and function

P

Echocardiography

 

Assessment of heart valves

P

Echocardiography

Diabetes

History of diabetes, diabetes medications

Q

Interview

 

Skin autofluorescence

P

AGE reader

 

Serum glucose, HbA1c

L

External laboratory

Blood parameters

Blood cell count

L

External laboratory

 

Mean corpuscular cell volume

L

External laboratory

 

Mean corpuscular hemoglobin content

L

External laboratory

 

Mean cellular hemoglobin concentration

L

External laboratory

 

C-reactive protein

L

External laboratory

 

LDL-, HDL-, total cholesterol, triglycerides

L

External laboratory

Urine parameters

Albumin:Creatinine, Protein:Creatinine ratio

L

Clinitek

 

Glucose, ketone, nitrite, pH

L

Clinitek

 

Erythrocyte and leukocyte count

L

Clinitek

Other diseases

Respiratory tract diseases

Q

Interview

 

Kidney diseases

Q

Interview

 

Arthritic diseases

Q

Interview

 

Skin diseases

Q

Interview

 

Liver diseases

Q

Interview

 

Cancer

Q

Interview

  1. Q self-reported information obtained by questionnaire, L laboratory analysis, P physical examination, HBA 1c glycated hemoglobin, LDL low-density lipoprotein, HDL high-density lipoprotein, AGE advanced glycation end products, DRS digital retinography system, OCT optical coherence tomography, ETDRS early treatment diabetic retinopathy study