AHS-2 Research

Overview

With 96,000 Adventist participants in the U.S. and Canada, the Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2) is one of the largest and most comprehensive studies of diet and cancer in the world. It is also one of the largest dietary studies of Black/African Americans and is helping answer why this group has a disproportionate amount of cancers and heart disease. AHS-2 is the latest in a series of long-running studies on the diet, lifestyle and health outcomes of the Adventist population in North America.

Detailed Timeline

Collaboration

AHS-2 welcomes collaboration with researchers and students both within Loma Linda University and externally-based. Details on the collaborative process are available below:

Collaborative Process / Guidelines

Internal Collaboration - LLU Students/Faculty
External Collaboration

Researcher/Project Pages

Researchers

Study Data

AHS-2 has a variety of research data collected from subjects via questionnaires, dietary recalls, and specimen collection. Additional data has been collected through linkages with state cancer registries, and the U.S. National Death Index (NDI). The links below provide information about the methods, survey instruments, and data variables.