Rationales, design and recruitment of the Taizhou longitudinal study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wang, Xiaofeng ^a,b   Lu, Ming ^a,c   Qian, Ji ^a,b   Yang, Yajun ^a,b   Li, Shilin ^a,b   Lu, Daru ^a,b   Yu, Shunzhang ^d   Meng, Wei ^d   Ye, Weimin ^e   Jin, Li ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CMC Institute of Health Sciences   (China)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DNA EXTRACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC RISK; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MUCOSA CELL; NEOPLASM; QUALITY CONTROL; STROKE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PILOT STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PILOT PROJECTS; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 68049137338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-223     Document Type: Article

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