Collected Dataset / SydneyMAS_5year_phone

• Australia

Kingsford-Smith and Wentworth, New South Wales.

Participants had to speak and write English sufficiently well to complete a psychometric assessment and were able to consent to participate.

The participants were excluded if they had a previous diagnosis of dementia, psychotic symptoms or a diagnosis of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, multiple sclerosis, motor neuron disease, developmental disability, progressive malignancy, or if they had medical or psychological conditions that may have prevented them from completing assessments.Participants were excluded if they had a MMSE score of less than 24 at study entry or if they received a diagnosis of dementia after comprehensive assessment.

• General population

• Selected sample

Wave 1: Baseline assessment (1037 participants), blood tests (943 participants) and MRI (544 participants)

1-year phone interview: 970 participants

Wave 2: 2-year assessment (889 participants), blood tests (722 participants) and MRI (425 participants)

3-year phone interview: 839 participants

Wave 3: 4-year assessment (792 participants)

5-year phone interview: 751 participants

Wave 4: 6-year assessment (708 participants), blood tests (533 participants) and MRI (265 participants)

7-year phone interview: 644 participants

Wave 5: 8-year assessment (574 participants, under review)

9-year phone interview: 517 participants (under review)

Wave 6: 465 participants (under review)

11-year phone interview: 254 participants (ongoing)

Wave 7: 57 participants (ongoing)