Metadata field: age_range
Studies:
- Baldanzi_2022_SCAPIS_Sweden (2000 samples)
- Zeevi_2015_nutrition (1181 samples)
- Lee_2023_CRC (971 samples)
- IMAGEOMICS_2022_Spain (937 samples)
- 193 other studies (24012 samples)
Scope: human
Type: string
Description: If a subject's exact age is unknown, use this field to add the range of the ages, inferring it from the paper's content.
Valid values with age ranges:
- over 5
- below 10
- 18 to 65
Valid values with textual descriptions:
- baby
- child
- adult
- elderly
Sometimes papers only contain a mean age with standard deviation. We do not use this information, as the actual range of ages cannot be reliably inferred in this case.