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The Vienna Transdanube Aging study “VITA” is a prospective, interdisciplinary cohort-study of all 75-years old inhabitants of the 21. and 22, district of Vienna (n = 1,745), which started in May 2000. The study design is described in this paper for the first time.
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Fischer, P. et al. (2002). Vienna Transdanube Aging “VITA”: study design, recruitment strategies and level of participation. In: Jellinger, K.A., Schmidt, R., Windisch, M. (eds) Ageing and Dementia Current and Future Concepts. Journal of Neural Transmission. Supplementa, vol 62. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6139-5_11
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