3 Prefecture Miyagi
Initiatives
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Assess the long-term effects of air pollution on mortality from lung cancer and respiratory diseases.
* Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.*
- Start Year
- 1984
- End Year
- 1999
- Funding
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Follow-up period was 15 years from the baseline survey, except for cancer incidence data for which follow-up was 9 years.
Marker Paper
Sado, J., Kitamura, T., Kitamura, Y., Zha, L., Liu, R., Sobue, T., Nishino, Y., Tanaka, H., Nakayama, T., Tsuji, I., Ito, H., Suzuki, T., Katanoda, K., Tominaga, S., & Three-Prefecture Cohort Study Group (2017). Rationale, design, and profile of the Three-Prefecture Cohort in Japan: A 15-year follow-up. Journal of epidemiology, 27(4), 193–199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.je.2016.05.003
PUBMED 28142030
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 31,769
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Aged over 40 years
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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