Establishing a follow-up of the Swiss MONICA participants (1984-1993): record linkage with census and mortality data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To assess the feasibility and quality of an anonymous linkage of 1) MONICA (MONItoring of trends and determinants in CArdiovscular disease, three waves between 1984 and 1993) data with 2) census and mortality records of the Swiss National Cohort in order to establish a mortality follow-up until 2008. Many countries feature the defect of lacking general population cohorts because they have missed to provide for follow-up information of health surveys.

Methods

Record linkage procedures were used in a multi-step approach. Kaplan-Meier curves from our data were contrasted with the survival probabilities expected from life tables for the general population, age-standardized mortality rates from our data with those derived from official cross-sectional mortality data. C

SUBMITTER: Bopp M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2955001 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature