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Cohort Profile: LIFE course study in CARdiovascular disease Epidemiology (LIFECARE)
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The global burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) has been increasing steadily over the past two decades. Although the age-standardized CVD mortality rates have fallen, the number of deaths due to CVDs continues to rise, with 17.9 million deaths attributed to them in 2015.1 A 12.5% increase in CVD deaths was seen between 2005 and 2015, with approximately 85% attributed to ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke alone.1 The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts this trend to continue, wi...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1093/ije/dyy168
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- International Journal of Epidemiology More from this journal
- Volume:
- 47
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 1399–1400g
- Publication date:
- 2018-08-24
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-07-11
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1464-3685
- ISSN:
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0300-5771
- Pmid:
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30165399
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- Shafiq et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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