Scottish Heart Health Extended Cohort
Initiatives
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This consists of two overlapping studies which share a common protocol and methods: the Scottish Heart Health Study randomly recruited men and women aged 40-59 across 22 Scottish districts in 1984-1987; Scottish MONICA similarly recruited men and women aged 25-64 in Edinburgh and North Glasgow in 1986, and in North Glasgow again in 1989, 1992 (to 74), and in 1995 as part of the WHO MONICA Project.
- Start Year
- 1984
- End Year
- 2016
- Funding
- The Institute of Cardiovascular Research (TICR)
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
Marker Paper
Tunstall-Pedoe H, Peters SAE, Woodward M, Struthers AD, Belch JJF. Twenty-Year Predictors of Peripheral Arterial Disease Compared With Coronary Heart Disease in the Scottish Heart Health Extended Cohort (SHHEC). J Am Heart Assoc. 2017 Sep 18;6(9):e005967. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.117.005967. Erratum in: J Am Heart Assoc. 2017 Dec 23;6(12):e004215.
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Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 18,107
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Men and women aged 25-74 years
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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