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Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study

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Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine

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The KIHD study, in Finnish also: SVVT (Sepelvaltimotaudin vaaratekijätutkimus)

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The Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (KIHD) is an extensive epidemiologic research project that was launched in the 1980s. Within 30 years, it has produced over 500 original peer-reviewed research papers in health-related international journals. The KIHD is a population-based longitudinal follow-up study, which initially involved nearly 3,000 middle-aged (42–60 years) men from the Kuopio region in Eastern Finland. Ten years later, women of the same age (N> 1,000) were recruited to the study. A major part of the original cohorts have been reexamined 4, 11, and 20 years after the baseline. Register linkages have been established with national covering registries, i.e., the National Death Registry of Finland, Hospital Discharge Registry, Cancer Registry, Kela prescription drug registry, and other disease-specific national health registries in Finland, to monitor annual...

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  1. Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, Box 1627, 70211, Kuopio, Finland

    Kauhanen Jussi

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  1. University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

    Marc Gellman

  2. Campbell University School of Pharmacy, Buies Creek, North Carolina, USA

    J. Rick Turner

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Jussi, K. (2016). Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study. In: Gellman, M., Turner, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_328-2

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