Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Marieann Högman - Uppsala University, Department of Medical Sciences
Description
Health assessments were performed on subjects living in a city area. In total was 24 179 invited and 18 543 responded. Of the responders were 5 885 later examined. The results of the ECG, X-ray and medical examinations created the X-69 database and its continuation, the X-71, when they were performed gathered knowledge of conditions associated with population health and morbidity in the short term. At the same time gave the two surveys opportunity to create a basis for so-called prospective, prospective, epidemiological studies. The population studied the development of illness and diseases are therefore in the years after the original the examinations at different times and with different orientations followed and related to the original measurement results.
When the X-69 and X-71 was carried out it led to vast amounts of data and large computer technology was utilized which in turn required high and specific professional skills in the computer field. This was met through cooperation with Uppsala University computer centre, UDAC. In connection with a reorganization 1997 - 1998 some parts of t
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Time Method
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HEALTH
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Medical and Health Sciences
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
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Lind L, Jakobsson S, Lithell H, Wengle B, Ljunghall S. Relation of serum calcium concentration to metabolic risk factors for cardiovascular disease. BMJ. 1988 Oct 15;297(6654):960-3.
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Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Marieann Högman - Uppsala University, Department of Medical Sciences