January 7, 2025
The HRS 2014-2016 Dried Blood Spot IL6 data is now available. HRS used dried blood spots (DBS) to produce data on lnterleukin-6 (IL-6) in 2014 and 2016. This was the last time DBS based markers were collected in HRS. DBS have been collected from approximately half the sample in each year beginning in 2006.