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International Journal of Epidemiology 2008 37(6):1236-1241; doi:10.1093/ije/dym292
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.

Cohort Profile: The Doetinchem Cohort Study

WMM Verschuren*, A Blokstra, HSJ Picavet and HA Smit

National Institute for Public Heath and the Environment, PO Box 1, 37230 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands.

* Corresponding author. PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands. E-mail: wmm.verschuren@rivm.nl

Accepted 10 December 2007

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   How did the study come about?
 
The origin of the Doetinchem Cohort Study lies within the Monitoring Project on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors (MP-CVDRF), which was aimed at providing prevalence estimates of cardiovascular disease risk factors, such as smoking, blood pressure and serum cholesterol levels. During 1987–91 each year an age- and sex-stratified random sample of men and women aged 20–59 years, was invited to participate. The MP-CVDRF was carried out in three towns in The Netherlands (Amsterdam in the west, Doetinchem in the east and Maastricht in the south), and from each of the three towns, about 12 000 men and women were examined. In the subsequent Monitoring Project on Chronic Disease Risk Factors (MORGEN-project), carried out from 1993–97, in Doetinchem only respondents from the MP-CVDRF were invited to participate, while in Amsterdam and Maastricht again random samples from the general population were examined. The protocol was extended, because the focus broadened from cardiovascular to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   What does it cover?
 

   Who is in the sample?
 

   How often have they been followed?
 

   What has been measured?
 
Biological risk factors
Lifestyle factors
Demographic information

   What is the attrition rate?
 

   What has been found
 

   Main strengths and weaknesses
 
Strengths
Weaknesses

   How can I collaborate?
 

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