Accessing CRELES Data
CRELES data can be accessed after submitting the form
below. Investigators downloading the data agree to use them for
academic research purposes only. It is not permitted to identify
individual participants, nor to redistribute the data. Users are
requested to submit a copy of any publications using these data to
creles-demog@demog.berkeley.edu or to the CRELES Principal Investigators.
Publications should include the following acknowledgment:
The CRELES project (Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study) is
a longitudinal study by the University of Costa Rica's Centro
Centroamericano de Población and Instituto de Investigaciones en
Salud, in collaboration with the University of California at
Berkeley. The original pre-1945 cohort was funded by the Wellcome
Trust (grant 072406), and the 1945-1955 Retirement Cohort was funded
by the U.S. National Institute on Aging (grant R01AG031716). The
study Principal Investigators are Luis Rosero-Bixby and William
H. Dow, and co-Principal Investigators Xinia Fernández and Gilbert
Brenes.