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Cohort Profile: The Hertfordshire Cohort Study [PDF]
How did the study come about? Ecological studies conducted in the 1980s demonstrated a close geographic correlation between death rates from coronary heart disease during the years 1968–78 in different parts of England and Wales and the infant mortality rate in these areas 60 years earlier.1 These studies suggested that adverse environmental ...
Syddall, H.E.+5 more
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Use of personal child health records in the UK: findings from the millennium cohort study. [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: The personal child health record (PCHR) is a record of a child's growth, development, and uptake of preventive health services, designed to enhance communication between parents and health professionals.
Bedford, H+3 more
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Cohort Profile: The Danish HIV Cohort Study [PDF]
Udgivelsesdato: 2008-Sep ...
Lars Haukali Omland+6 more
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Genetic variants may predispose children to recurrent respiratory infections (RRIs) but studies on genotype-environment interaction are rare. We hypothesized that the risk for RRIs is elevated in children with innate immune gene variants, and that ...
Laura S. Korhonen+7 more
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Cohort Profile: The MUg Observational Cohort [PDF]
Mildmay Uganda (MUg), an HIV treatment centre near Kampala, the capital of Uganda, has entered into a memorandum of understanding to collaborate with Canadian researchers at the University of Ottawa to develop their research programme and develop an observational cohort database (the MUg observational cohort).
Amber Featherstone+7 more
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Cohort profile: the Swedish Pancreatitis Cohort (SwePan)
PurposeThe Swedish Pancreatitis Cohort (SwePan) was designed to study long-term outcomes following an episode of acute pancreatitis. It can also be used to study various risk factors for developing acute pancreatitis.ParticipantsThe SwePan is a register-based nationwide matched cohort.
Daniel Selin+6 more
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Women's blood pressure (BP) changes throughout pregnancy. The effect of BP trajectories on preterm delivery is not clear. The authors aim to evaluate the association between maternal BP trajectories during pregnancy and preterm delivery.
Fanfan Chan+12 more
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Identifiability in Age/Period/Cohort Mortality Models [PDF]
The addition of a set of cohort parameters to a mortality model can generate complex identifiability issues due to the collinearity between the dimensions of age, period and cohort.
Blake, D., Hunt, A.
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The association between overall health, psychological distress, and occupational heat stress among a large national cohort of 40,913 Thai workers [PDF]
BACKGROUND Occupational heat stress is a well-known problem, particularly in tropical countries, affecting workers, health and well-being. There are very few recent studies that have reported on the effect of heat stress on mental health, or overall ...
Kjellstrom, Tord+5 more
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Cohort Profile: The Northern Swedish Cohort [PDF]
The Northern Swedish Cohort was started by Anne Hammarstrom [principal investigator (PI)] in collaboration with Urban Janlert and other researchers within the field of social medicine (Ragnar Berfenstam, Finn Diderichsen, Tores Theorell, Lars H Gustafsson, Claes Sundelin, Gustav Jonsson).
Anne Hammarström, Urban Janlert
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