About the Study

The Boston Puerto Rican Health Study (BPRHS), which began in 2004, is a longitudinal study of an established cohort of 1500 older Puerto Rican adults residing in the Greater Boston area. The overall goal of this cohort study is to examine the role of psychosocial and physiologic stress, health and health behaviors, nutritional status, genetic and other personal health variations, and how social and community supports impact health disparities, such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and cardiometabolic outcomes, experienced by this population. There are four waves of data collected over ~13 years that focus on outcomes such as cognitive function, stress, cardiovascular health and overall health outcomes in relation to diet, health disparities and aging.

The Boston Puerto Rican Osteoporosis Study (BPROS) is an ancillary study to the BPRHS. After participants of the BPRHS completed their second visit, they were invited to take part in the BPROS. The BPROS collected additional measurements, including bone mineral density (BMD). A follow-up visit was conducted approximately 6 years after the baseline bone visit with participants of the BPROS to determine changes in BMD over time and to examine bone strength in relation to compounds called advanced glycation end products (AGEs).

Access the BPRHS Descriptive Statistics Dashboard which includes data for each section of the BPRHS codebook.

Funding

Funding was provided by the following National Institute of Health Grants:

  • P01 AG023394
  • P50 HL105185
  • R01 AG055948
  • R01 AR072741
  • R01 AG027087
  • RF1 AG075922