Table 1.
IGEMS studies
| Study | Label | Reference | N subjects |
Age range |
Vars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finnish Twin Cohort | FTC | Kaprio and Koskenvuo (2002) |
7870 | 53-67 | SRH |
| Finntwin16 | FT16 | Kaprio, Pulkkinen, and Rose (2002) |
4246 | 21-29 | SRH |
| Longitudinal Study of Aging Danish Twins |
LSADT | Christensen, Holm, McGue, Corder, and Vaupel (1999) |
3311 | 70-102 | SRH COMP ACT |
| Middle-Age Danish Twins | MADT | Osler et al. (2008) | 4037 | 45-68 | SRH COMP ACT |
| Midlife in the United States | MIDUS | South and Krueger (2012) |
1764 | 25-74 | SRH COMP ACT |
| Minnesota Twin Study of Adult Development and Aging |
MTSADA | Finkel and McGue (1993) |
835 | 25-92 | COMP ACT |
| Origins of Variance in the Oldest-Old |
OCTO- Twin |
McClearn et al. (1997) |
666 | 79-98 | SRH COMP ACT |
| Swedish Adoption Twin Study of Aging |
SATSA | Finkel and Pedersen (2004) |
1711 | 26-93 | SRH COMP ACT |
| Twin and Offspring Study in Sweden |
TOSS | Neiderheiser and Lichtenstein (2008) |
1069 | 32-60 | SRH COMP ACT |
| Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging |
VETSA | Kremen et al. (2006) |
1070 | 51-60 | SRH COMP ACT |
Note: SRH – self-rated health; COMP = health compared with others; ACT = health influences activities