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2016 Venous Blood Study (VBS)

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The VBS 2016 Data (Final, Version 3.0) release consists of information derived from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a national longitudinal study of the economic, health, marital, family status, and public and private support systems of older Americans. The National Institute on Aging provided funding (NIH U01 AGO9740).The Institute for Social Research (ISR) Survey Research Center (SRC) at the University of Michigan conducted the survey. Specifically, these data were part of a Venous Blood Study supplement to the 2016 Core data collection.

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Apr 2025 (Final V3.0)
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Feb 2016 - Sept 2017

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