Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (ARIC) Field Centers (FC)

Support Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (ARIC) field centers. The goal of the ARIC Field Centers is to enhance statistical power to perform analyses of predictors of clinical events, particularly in informative subgroups and study the progression of subclinical to clinical cardiovascular disease (CVD),including identification of new risk factors or interactions among factors. The operational goals are to (1) support continued cohort follow-up and data collection on clinical events; (2) continue to foster scientific collaborations; and (3) conduct a limited clinical examination of the ARIC participants as a platform for ancillary study examination components.