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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018 May 15;71(19):2149–2161. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.03.022

Table 2.

Resources for research on older adults with cardiovascular disease and multimorbidity*

Registries and clinical databases
  • National Cardiovascular Data Registry (all components)

  • American Heart Association registries

  • Veterans Affairs databases

  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services databases

  • Healthcare Utilization Project

Clinical trials, cohort studies, and cross-sectional studies
  • Framingham Heart Study

  • Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

  • Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

  • Cardiovascular Health Study

  • Silver-AMI

  • Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging

  • Health and Retirement Study

  • National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

  • Duke Databank

  • NHLBI-sponsored clinical studies (biolincc.nhlbi.nih.gov)

  • Yale Open Data Access project

Networks
  • PCORnet

  • Health Care Systems Research Network

  • FDA Sentinel

  • NIH Health Care Systems Collaboratory

Models and tools
  • PREPARE for advance care planning (prepareforyourcare.org)

  • Time to Harm and Benefit Assessment

  • NIH Toolbox/PROMIS (healthmeasures.net)

  • ePrognosis (ePrognosis.org)

Funding agencies and partners
  • National Institutes of Health

  • Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

  • American Heart Association

  • American Federation for Aging Research

  • Longer Life Foundation

  • Retirement Research Foundation

  • John A. Hartford Foundation

  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

AMI: acute myocardial infarction; FDA: Food and Drug Administration; PCOR: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research; NIH: National Institutes of Health; NHLBI: National Heart Lung and Blood Institute

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Note that this list is not intended to be all-inclusive