PHSRN Symposium on using cohorts to study lifecourse epidemiology

posted on 25 August, 2011 by peter

Researchers from the PHSRN convened a symposium on cohort studies at the recent World Congress of Epidemiology in Edinburgh.

The symposium, chaired by Cyrus Cooper, covered a range of methodological issues and practical examples of the use of cohorts to study the way health, function and disease vary over the lifecourse. It included presentations on missing data and methods for minimising attrition, measurement and modelling of functional trajectories, use of genetic variants as instruments for modifiable risk factors, the use of cohorts to study intergenerational and early life influences on chronic disease, new tools for lifestyle exposure measurement, and an introduction to the new UK Birth Cohort Study. A full report is available on the activities page.

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