Approval Date
2015.3.14
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Ali Ahmadi
– (Ph.D) – Epidemiologist – Modeling in Health Research Center, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran – aliahmadi2007@gmail.com
Approval date
2015.3.14
Starting date
November 2015
Goals
To analyze risk factors, incidence rates, prevalence, trends, outcomes and the models of environmental and genetic determinants of Health, NCDs and their outcomes as well as interaction among such determinants
Study population
Shahrekord cohort center was included people between the ages of 35 and 75 (both sexes), living in ten urban area in Shahrekord and ten rural area in Ardal district.
Sampling method and sample size
multistage, stratified cluster random sampling method. N=10078
Data Collection
Questionnaires, check list, observation, interview
Follow up Methods
Phone, Annual follow-ups (200,000 person-year) of the cohort were designed to be conducted up to 2036
Main Exposures
a detailed demographic, socioeconomic, general health, quality of life, physical activity, anthropometric indexes, stress, health literacy, social capital, nutrition and eating habits, lifestyle, occupational history, living place, blindness, deafness, electrocardiography, lung capacities, blood pressure, sleep, smoking and alcohol, contact to animals, physical examinations and medical history, dental health, used drugs and supplements, glucose and lipid profiles.
Outcomes
Incidence of common NCDs (cardiovascular diseases, cancer, gastrointestinal, respiratory, renal, hepatic, accidents, injury and neurological diseases, MS), trend of risk factors, hospitalization, disability, and death were considered the outcomes of the cohort.
Cohort Study
Gallery
Data collection inestruments
link to Questionnaires 1
link to Questionnaires 2
Metadata Dictionary
link to metadata
