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The Korean Heart Study: rationale, objectives, protocol, and preliminary results for a new prospective cohort study of 430,920 men and women

Authors
 Sun Ha Jee  ;  G David Batty  ;  Yangsoo Jang  ;  Dong Joo Oh  ;  Byung-Hee Oh  ;  Sang Hoon Lee  ;  Seong-Wook Park  ;  Ki-Bae Seung  ;  Heejin Kimm  ;  Sang Yeun Kim  ;  Yejin Mok  ;  Hyon-Suk Kim  ;  Duk Chul Lee  ;  Sung Hee Choi  ;  Moon Jong Kim  ;  Gyu Jang Lee  ;  Jidong Sung  ;  BeLong Cho  ;  Eung Soo Kim  ;  Byung-Yeon Yu  ;  Tae-Yong Lee  ;  Jong Sung Kim  ;  Yong-Jin Lee  ;  Jang-Kyun Oh  ;  Sung Hi Kim  ;  Jong-Ku Park  ;  Sang Baek Koh  ;  Sat Byul Park  ;  Soon Young Lee  ;  Cheol-In Yoo  ;  Moon Chan Kim  ;  Hong-Kyu Kim  ;  Joo-sung Park  ;  Young Duk Yun  ;  Soo Jin Baek  ;  Jonathan M Samet  ;  Mark Woodward 
Citation
 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY, Vol.21(12) : 1484-1492, 2014 
Journal Title
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY
ISSN
 2047-4873 
Issue Date
2014
MeSH
Adult ; Age Distribution ; Age Factors ; Aged ; Asian Continental Ancestry Group* ; Electronic Health Records ; Female ; Health Surveys ; Heart Diseases/diagnosis ; Heart Diseases/ethnology* ; Heart Diseases/mortality ; Humans ; Male ; Medical Record Linkage ; Middle Aged ; Prevalence ; Republic of Korea/epidemiology ; Research Design* ; Risk Factors ; Sex Distribution ; Sex Factors ; Time Factors
Keywords
Cardiovascular disease ; cohort study ; prevalence ; risk factor
Abstract
BACKGROUND: To describe the rationale, objectives, protocol, and preliminary results for a new prospective cohort study of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in South Korea.

METHODS: Study members were recruited from participants in routine health assessments at health promotion centres across South Korea. Established and emerging CVD risk factors were measured. Eighteen centres holding electronic health records agreed to linkage of participants' records to future health insurance claims for monitoring of disease events. The recruitment of 430,920 participants (266,782 men, 164,138 women), aged 30-74 years, provides broad geographical reach across South Korea.

RESULTS: Risk factor prevalence was more favourable in women than men, and, in general, in the younger rather than older study members. There was also close similarity between the characteristics of the present sample and the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The expected associations between risk factors and both CVD and death were also apparent.

CONCLUSIONS: Data from the present sample, based on data linkage, show close agreement with South Korea-wide surveys (for risk factor prevalence) and the extant literature (for risk factor associations). These findings gives confidence in future results anticipated from this cohort study of east Asians - a group that has been traditionally under-researched.
Full Text
http://cpr.sagepub.com/content/21/12/1484
DOI
10.1177/2047487313497602
Appears in Collections:
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Family Medicine (가정의학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Internal Medicine (내과학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Laboratory Medicine (진단검사의학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
4. Graduate School of Public Health (보건대학원) > Graduate School of Public Health (보건대학원) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Kim, Hyon Suk(김현숙) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5662-7740
Kimm, Heejin(김희진) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4526-0570
Mok, Ye Jin(목예진)
Lee, Duk Chul(이덕철) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9166-1813
Jang, Yang Soo(장양수) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2169-3112
Jee, Sun Ha(지선하) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9519-3068
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/138839
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