| Literature DB >> 11815637 |
M L Bots1, P C Elwood, Y Nikitin, J T Salonen, A Freire de Concalves, D Inzitari, J Sivenius, A Trichopoulou, J Tuomilehto, P J Koudstaal, D E Grobbee.
Abstract
This paper describes the design and methodology of the participating cohorts in the EUROSTROKE project. Information is given about the cohort sampling, its size, the follow up procedures and event classification. Information is also given about the measurement of the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risk factors in each of the cohorts separately. The cohorts described are the Caerphilly study in Cardiff, United Kingdom; the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart disease study in Kuopio, Finland; the Portugal study in Coimbra, Portugal; the EPIC cohort in Athens, Greece; the Ilsa study from Firenze, Italy; the Rotterdam Study in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and the Novosibirsk cohort in Novosibirsk, Russia.Mesh：
Year: 2002 PMID： 11815637 PMCID： PMC1765506 DOI： 10.1136/jech.56.suppl_1.i2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Epidemiol Community Health ISSN： 0143-005X Impact factor: 3.710