Add Health Wave VI: Longitudinal Health and Aging Study of U.S. Midlife Adults, 2022-2025

Wave VI of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health collected data from participants aged 39 to 51, with an average age of 44, between 2022 and 2025. The study aimed to understand life course trajectories, determinants, and consequences of aging, health, and health disparities among U.S. early midlife adults. It was authored by Robert A. Hummer and includes longitudinal survey measures and a home exam component for consenting participants.

Use Cases

• Modeling life course health trajectories based on longitudinal survey measures.
• Analyzing the impact of cumulative stress and discrimination on health outcomes in midlife.
• Investigating associations between work-life balance, caregiving, and physical or cognitive health.
• Studying health disparities by linking survey responses with anthropometric, cardiovascular, and blood-based data from home exams.

Strengths

• Longitudinal design tracking the same cohort from adolescence to midlife.
• Multimodal data collection combining survey responses with physical exam and biomarker data.
• Specific focus on a critical life stage with participants aged 39-51, averaging 44 years old.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

ODUM Harvested Dataverse, Add Health study.

Collection Method

Longitudinal survey and home exam data collection.

Time Range

2022-2025

Freshness

Last updated 2025-12-22 04:10:12; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States