Article
Rationales, design and recruitment of the Taizhou Longitudinal Study.
BMC public health - 10 Jul 2009
Wang Xiaofeng, Lu Ming, Qian Ji, Yang Yajun, Li Shilin, Lu Daru, Yu Shunzhang, Meng Wei, Ye Weimin, Jin Li
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Rapid economic growth in China in the past decades has been accompanied by dramatic changes in lifestyle and environmental exposures. The burdens of non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer, have also increased substantially. METHODS/DESIGN: We initiated a large prospective cohort-the Taizhou Longitudinal Study-in Taizhou (a medium-size city in China) to explore...
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