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Disease prevalence, health-related and socio-demographic factors in the GCAT cohort. A comparison with the general population of Catalonia

2023-09-08

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<h4>Background</h4> Population-based cohorts play a key role in epidemiological studies. However, it is known that volunteer cohorts include a healthy volunteer bias. Assessment and characterization of this bias is needed to extrapolate results to the general population. Here, we assess the bias of the population-based cohort GCAT, encompassing 20 000 adult participants from Catalonia with electronic health record...

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DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.08.23295239

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