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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Rachel Kimble, Gillian McLellan, Professor John Mathers, Professor Sheena Ramsay
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Key Features The British Regional Heart Study (BRHS) consists of an all-male cohort of 7735 participants aged 40-59-years first recruited in 1978-80 and followed-up over 40-years to 2018. The original focus of the BRHS was to investigate regional variations in cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality across Britain, but the objectives widened to examine other key health outcomes related to CVD and associated with healthy ageing, such as physical function, disability, frailty, dental health, malnutrition, and sarcopenia. The latest physical examination (40-year follow-up) of the cohort conducted in 2018, hosted 667 men and 1009 responded to postal questionnaires aged 78-99-years. This follow-up enhances prospective data at very advanced ages by building on the previous examination in 2010-12 at 71-92-years. The new measures conducted within this cohort’s 40-year follow-up include extended objective and subjective oral health measures, subjective appetite and malnutrition measures, and anthropometric measures associated with lower body extremity muscle mass. The BRHS has maintained existing collaborations and remains open to new collaborative projects. Please contact Lucy Lennon [l.lennon@ucl.ac.uk] for more details.
Author(s): Kimble R, McLellan G, Lennon LT, Papacosta AO, Mathers JC, Wannamethee SG, Whincup PH, Ramsay SE
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: International Journal of Epidemiology
Year: 2022
Issue: ePub ahead of Print
Online publication date: 03/06/2022
Acceptance date: 19/05/2022
Date deposited: 01/06/2022
ISSN (print): 0300-5771
ISSN (electronic): 1464-3685
Publisher: Oxford University Press
URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyac122
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyac122
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