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HAALSI Wave 1 Dried Blood Spot for C-Reactive Protein

C-Reactive Protein (CRP) values assayed from dried blood spots during the HAALSI Wave 1 survey, mergeable to HAALSI survey data.

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Key facts

InstitutionHarvard Center for Population and Development Studies; MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit of the University of the Witwatersrand
CoverageRural Mpumalanga province, South Africa, within the Agincourt health and socio-demographic surveillance system (AHDSS)
Time spanNovember 2014 to November 2015 (Wave 1 survey)
Scale3 files
LicensePublic
AccessHarvard Dataverse

Contents & fields

This dataset contains C-Reactive Protein (CRP) values assayed from dried blood spots (DBS) during the HAALSI Wave 1 survey. Data can be merged with HAALSI survey data using the unique identifier (prim_key). The dataset includes 3 files; specific field information is not publicly disclosed.

Research uses

Useful for epidemiological studies examining associations between inflammatory markers and health, cognitive function, cardiovascular disease, HIV, etc., among older adults in rural South Africa.

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Keywords

HAALSIC-reactive proteindried blood spotSouth Africaolder adultsinflammation

Access & license

License: Public | Free to access

Why this is hard to get on your own

When obtaining specific biomarker (CRP) data, it often needs to be extracted from a large survey and linked to the main dataset.

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