The Korean Heart Study: rationale, objectives, protocol, and preliminary results for a new prospective cohort study of 430,920 men and women
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430,920 participants, aged 30-74 years, recruited from routine health assessments at health promotion…
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Implication
Risk factor patterns in this East Asian cohort are hypothesis-generating; leaves open links to sex- and age-specific cardiovascular outcomes.
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Population
430,920 participants (266,782 men, 164,138 women), aged 30-74 years, recruited from routine health assessments at health promotion centres across South Korea.
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Outcome
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and future disease events (CVD and death)
The Korean Heart Study establishes a large prospective cohort of 430,920 East Asian adults to investigate cardiovascular disease risk factors and outcomes.
Cite This Study
Jee et al. (2013) studied this question.