China Kadoorie Biobank of 0.5 million people: Survey methods, baseline characteristics and long-term follow-up

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1652-1666

  Chen, Zhengming ^a   Chen, Junshi ^b   Collins, Rory ^a   Guo, Yu ^b,c,f   Peto, Richard ^a   Wu, Fan ^b,d   Li, Liming ^b,c,e   Lancaster, Garry ^f   Yang, Xiaoming ^f   Williams, Alex ^f   Smith, Margaret ^f   Yang, Ling ^f   Chang, Yumei ^f   Zhao, Guoqing ^f   Bian, Zheng ^f   Wu, Lixue ^f   Hou, Can ^f   Pang, Zengchang ^f   Wang, Shaojie ^f   Zhang, Yun ^f   Zhang, Kui ^f   Liu, Silu ^f   Zhao, Zhonghou ^f   Liu, Shumei ^f   Pang, Zhigang ^f   Feng, Weijia ^f   Wu, Shuling ^f   Yang, Liqiu ^f   Han, Huili ^f   He, Hui ^f   Pan, Xianhai ^f   Wang, Shanqing ^f   Wang, Hongmei ^f   Hao, Xinhua ^f   Chen, Chunxing ^f   Lin, Shuxiong ^f   Hu, Xiaoshu ^f   Zhou, Minghao ^f   Wu, Ming ^f   Wang, Yeyuan ^f   Hu, Yihe ^f   Ma, Liangcai ^f   Zhou, Renxian ^f   Xu, Guanqun ^f   Dong, Baiqing ^f   Chen, Naying ^f   Huang, Ying ^f   Li, Mingqiang ^f   Meng, Jinhuai ^f   Gan, Zhigao ^f   Xu, Jiujiu ^f   Liu, Yun ^f   Wu, Xianping ^f   Gao, Yali ^f   Zhang, Ningmei ^f   Luo, Guojin ^f   Que, Xiangsan ^f   Chen, Xiaofang ^f   Ge, Pengfei ^f   He, Jian ^f   Ren, Xiaolan ^f   Zhang, Hui ^f   Mao, Enke ^f   Li, Guanzhong ^f   Li, Zhongxiao ^f   He, Jun ^f   Liu, Guohua ^f   Zhu, Baoyu ^f   Zhou, Gang ^f   Feng, Shixian ^f   Gao, Yulian ^f   He, Tianyou ^f   Jiang, Li ^f   Qin, Jianhua ^f   Sun, Huarong ^f   Liu, Liqun ^f   Yu, Min ^f   Chen, Yaping ^f   Hu, Zhixiang ^f   Hu, Jianjin ^f   Qian, Yijian ^f   Wu, Zhiying ^f   Chen, Lingli ^f   Liu, Wen ^f   Li, Guangchun ^f   Liu, Huilin ^f   Long, Xiangquan ^f   Xiong, Youping ^f   Tan, Zhongwen ^f   Xie, Xuqiu ^f   Peng, Yunfang ^f   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^d Shanghai Municipal Centre for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Aetiology; Biobank; China; Chronic diseases; Cohort studies

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; BASELINE CONDITIONS; BLOOD; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATABASE; ETIOLOGY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROGENEITY; LIFESTYLE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SAMPLING; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RURAL AREA; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DATABASES, GENETIC; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

CHINA;

EID: 83455213326     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyr120     Document Type: Article

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