Cohort profile: Cohort of Norway (CONOR)

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 481-485

  Næss, Øyvind ^a,b   Søgaard, Anne Johanne ^a,b   Arnesen, Egil ^c   Beckstrøm, Anne Cathrine ^b   Bjertness, Espen ^b   Engeland, Anders ^d   Hjort, Peter F ^b   Holmen, Jostein ^e   Magnus, Per ^a,b   Njølstad, Inger ^c   Tell, Grethe S ^d   Vatten, Lars ^e   Vollset, Stein Emil ^d   Aamodt, Geir ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORWAY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DNA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NORWAY; PREVALENCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 44949262835     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dym217     Document Type: Article

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