IJE Advance Access originally published online on July 14, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(4):844-852; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl131
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Cohort Profile: The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study, a Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Birmingham collaboration
1 Department of Community Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China.
2 Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
3 Guangzhou Occupational Disease Prevention and Treatment Centre, Guangzhou No. 12 Hospital, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
* Corresponding author. Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, 5/F Academic and Administration Block, Faculty of Medicine Building, University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. E-mail: commed@hkucc.hku.hk
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The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study (GBCS), initiated by TH Lam (Hong Kong), CQ Jiang (Guangzhou), and KK Cheng (Birmingham), has been in part modelled on the Kadoorie Study of Chronic Disease in China (KSCDC)1 and the UK Biobank.2 Initial seed funding came from the Universities of Hong Kong and Birmingham, the Guangzhou No. 12 Hospital (Guangzhou Occupational Disease Prevention & Treatment Centre), the Guangzhou Public Health Bureau, and the Guangzhou Science and Technology Bureau. The Clinical Trials Service Unit at Oxford University has provided technical advice, especially in the planning and setting up of the project.
Whereas the KSCDC recruits adults aged 35–74 years nationwide from five rural counties and five urban districts, the GBCS focuses on older people aged at least 50 years in a mega-city of 
10 million. Of these, 6.4 million are permanent residents with locally registered households and the remainder are mostly migrants from other parts
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