Author | Publication year | Study name | Country | Sex of population | Age at baseline (years) | No of participants | Mean length of follow-up (years) | Endpoints (No of cases) |
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Hu et al36 | 1999 | Health Professionals Follow-up Study | USA | Male | 40-75 | 37 851 | 8 | Coronary heart disease (866) |
Hu et al36 | 1999 | Nurses’ Health Study | USA | Female | 34-59 | 80 082 | 14 | Coronary heart disease (939) |
Sauvaget et al39 | 2003 | Hiroshima/Nagasaki Life Span Study | Japan | Male and female | 34-103 | 34 807 | 16-17 | Stroke mortality (1259) |
Nakamura et al37 | 2004 | NIPPON DATA80 | Japan | Male | 30+ | 4077 | 14 | Ischemic heart disease mortality (39), stroke mortality (112) |
Nakamura et al37 | 2004 | NIPPON DATA80 | Japan | Female | 30+ | 5186 | 14 | Ischemic heart disease mortality (41), stroke mortality (107) |
Nakamura et al40 | 2006 | Japan Public Health Center-based prospective study | Japan | Male and female | 40-69 | 90 735 | 10.2 | Coronary heart disease (462) |
Qureshi et al41 | 2007 | NHANES-I | USA | Male and female | 25-74 | 9734 | 20 | Coronary artery disease (1584), stroke (655) |
Djousse et al42 | 2008 | Physicians’ Health Study I | USA | Male | 40-85 | 21 327 | 20 | Myocardial infarction (1550), stroke (1342) |
Scrafford et al34 | 2011 | NHANES III | USA | Male | 17+ | 6833 | 8.8 | Coronary heart disease mortality (198), stroke mortality (63) |
Scrafford et al34 | 2011 | NHANES III | USA | Female | 17+ | 8113 | 8.9 | Coronary heart disease mortality (168), stroke mortality (74) |
Bernstein et al38 | 2012 | Health Professionals Follow-Up Study | USA | Male | 40-75 | 43 150 | 22 | Stroke (1397) |
Bernstein et al38 | 2012 | Nurses’ Health Study | USA | Female | 30-55 | 84 010 | 26 | Stroke (2633) |
NHANES-I=First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; NHANES III=Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; NIPPON DATA80=National Integrated Project for Prospective Observation of Non-communicable Disease and its Trends in the Aged, 1980.