About the dataset

Primary description: Aging and dementia in diverse populations

The Washington Heights-Inwood Columbia Aging Project (WHICAP) examines a large and diverse sample of white, black, and Hispanic participants to identify risk factors and biomarkers for understanding aging and Alzheimer’s disease.
Study Washington Heights–Inwood Columbia Aging Project
Study Website WHICAP
Data Descriptor Paper https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38183363/
DUA https://cumc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6x5rRy14B6vpoqN
Country/Region USA
Disease Tag alzheimers;aging
Age (mean ± SD)
(Baseline)
75.1 ± 6.4
Age Range
(Baseline)
62-100
% Female 60.8
CUBIC Project /cbica/projects/NIAGADS
PI for CUBIC Access Approval Christos Davatzikos
N Subjects 1019
N MR Sessions 1336
Diagnoses
AD
Value V01 V02
CN 448 86
nan 445 212
MCI 85 13
AD 15 3
DLMUSE (v1.0.7)
(1334/1334 complete)
/cbica/projects/NIAGADS/WHICAP/Pipelines/WHICAP_DLMUSE_2025/Results/DLMUSE_Volumes.csv
RAVENS (DRAMMS-1.4.1)
(1333/1333 complete)
/cbica/projects/NIAGADS/WHICAP/Pipelines/WHICAP_3.5D_DLICV_MASK_2022/Protocols/RAVENS
Non-Imaging Data
/cbica/projects/NIAGADS/WHICAP/Data

Raw data downloaded from source.

https://vmacdata.org/adsp-phc/data/data-dictionary

Data dictionary of raw data downloaded from source.

/cbica/home/harmang/for_others/final_combined_istaging_withMUSE.csv

Data consolidated and harmonized in 2026.

This study: subset with df[df.Study == 'WHICAP']


Funding
The Washington Heights-Inwood Community Aging Project (WHICAP) was funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA)