The Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds: How Well Does It Reflect the Canadian Population?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The intent of the Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds (CAHHM) cohort is to understand the early determinants of subclinical cardiac and vascular disease and progression in adults selected from existing cohorts-the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow's Health, the Prospective Urban and Rural Evaluation (PURE) cohort, and the Montreal Heart Institute Biobank. We evaluated how well the CAHHM-Health Services Research (CAHHM-HSR) subcohort reflects the Canadian population.

Methods

A cross-sectional design was used among a prospective cohort of community-dwelling adults aged 35-69 years who met the CAHHM inclusion criteria, and a cohort of adults aged 35-69 years who responded to the 2015 Canadian Community Health Survey-Rapid Response module. The INTERHEART ri

SUBMITTER: Hall RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7711015 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature