---
title: "The Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging (SALSA)"
id: "7006"
type: "cohort"
slug: "salsa"
published_at: "2024-10-22T15:38:00+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-11-22T21:36:13+00:00"
url: "https://dss.niagads.org/cohorts/salsa/"
markdown_url: "https://dss.niagads.org/cohorts/salsa.md"
excerpt: "The Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging (SALSA) is a population-based, prospective study of foreign and US-born Latino respondents living in the Sacramento Valley region of Northern California. The SALSA study is tracking the incidence of physical and cognitive impairment..."
taxonomy_cohort_countries:
  - "United States of America"
---

## Description

The Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging (SALSA) is a population-based, prospective study of foreign and US-born Latino respondents living in the Sacramento Valley region of Northern California. The SALSA study is tracking the incidence of physical and cognitive impairment as well as dementia and cardiovascular diseases in elderly Latinos in the Sacramento region. Demographic information for study participant includes age given at follow-up visits, country of birth, language, religion, marital status, educational level, occupation, household income, and size of household.

## Related Datasets

- [NG00141-SALSA GWAS](https://dss.niagads.org/datasets/ng00141/) This dataset includes individual level data from Sacramento Area Longitudinal Study on Aging (SALSA). This includes both genotyping (raw and imputed) on the Infinium Global Screening Array-24 Kit as well… [Learn more](https://dss.niagads.org/datasets/ng00141/)

## Related Studies

- [sa000055 - The Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging (SALSA)](https://dss.niagads.org/studies/sa000055/) The Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging (SALSA) is a population-based, prospective study of foreign and US-born Latino respondents living in the Sacramento Valley region of Northern California. The SALSA… [Learn more](https://dss.niagads.org/studies/sa000055/)

## Related Sample Sets

- [snd10090 - SALSA GWAS](https://dss.niagads.org/sample-sets/snd10090/) This dataset contains 1,788 subjects that were genotyped using the Infinium Global Screening Array-24. Of these, 1,316 subjects passed QC filtering and resulting in 457,264 variants. Additionally, the imputed genotypes… [Learn more](https://dss.niagads.org/sample-sets/snd10090/)

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