The MIDSPAN Studies
Principal Investigator:
Carole L. Hart
Public Health and Health Policy, University of Glasgow ( Scotland UK )
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
- Pauline MacKinnon - Public Health and Health Policy, University of Glasgow ( Scotland UK )
- Graham Watt - General Practice and Primary Care, University of Glasgow ( Scotland UK )
- Mark Upton - General Practice and Primary Care, University of Glasgow ( Scotland UK )
- Alex McConnachie - Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow ( Scotland UK )
- David Hole - Public Health and Health Policy, University of Glasgow ( Scotland UK )
- George Davey Smith - Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol ( UK )
- Charles Gillis - Public Health and Health Policy, University of Glasgow ( Scotland UK )
- Victor Hawthorne - Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Funding sources:
- Scottish Home and Health Department
- NHS Cardiovascular Research and Development Programme
- Wellcome Trust
- Renfrewshire King Edward Memorial Trust
- Board of Management for Glasgow Northern Hospitals
- Western Regional Hospital Board
Time period for subject recruitment (start/end dates):
1967 - present
Background of study:
Community-based epidemiological studies of chronic cardio-respiratory and other risk factors in large, defined total samples of general populations.
Objectives of study:
Detection and prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases of prevalence.
Design of study:
Longitudinal cohort.
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