Acknowledgments
Funding for the Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging
(TLSA) came from the Taiwan Department of Health, the
Taiwan National Health Research Institute (grant number
DD01-86IX-GR601S), and the Taiwan Provincial Government.
The Social Environment and Biomarkers of Aging
Study (SEBAS) was funded by the Demography and Epidemiology
Unit of the Behavioral and Social Research Program
of the National Institute on Aging (grant numbers R01
AG16790, R01 AG16661). The Bureau of Health Promotion
(Department of Health, Taiwan) provided additional financial
support for SEBAS 2000. This work also received support from
the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development (grant number R24HD047879).
We gratefully acknowledge the hard work and dedication
of the staff at the Center for Population and Health Survey
Research, Bureau of Health Promotion, Taiwan Department
of Health. We also thank iSTAT Healthcare consulting; Min-
Long Lai and Susana Ong at Union Clinical Laboratory in
Taipei; and the contracted hospitals, city/county Bureaus of
Health and the health stations of the sampled townships for
their assistance.