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The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project is establishing a pan-Canadian prospective cohort of 300,000 participants to study the environmental, lifestyle, and genetic causes of chronic diseases.
Cohort (n=300,000)
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Enables large-scale Canadian research on chronic disease etiology; leaves open clinical translation pending mature prospective data.
As the proportion of the population over age 65 increases in Western countries, the burden of cancer [1][1] and other chronic diseases is also increasing. If advances in preventing these diseases are to be realized, better information is needed about their causes and the antecedents of the causes.
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Borugian et al. (2010) conducted a cohort in Cancer and chronic diseases (n=300,000). Environmental, lifestyle, and genetic risk factors was evaluated. The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project is establishing a pan-Canadian prospective cohort of 300,000 participants to study the environmental, lifestyle, and genetic causes of chronic diseases.
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