Acronym
MONICA
Leading institute
THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST
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Topics
Health status » Morbidity/disability » Non-communicable diseases » Cardiovascular diseases
Determinants of health » Individual characteristics and behaviours » Individual characteristics
Health status » Mortality » Age- and cause-specific mortality » Non-communicable diseases (excluding cancer)
Free keywords
MONICA
Stroke
Coronary heart disease
Gene-environment interactions
Aim of the network/project
To establish a large European cohort study of CHD and stroke in men and in women in all centres with follow-up data in the MONICA Project. To assess the predictive ability of the genetic polymorphisms of candidate genes for the subsequent development of CHD or stroke. The MONICA Project was established in the early 1980s in many Centres around the world to MONItor trends in Cardiovascular diseases (coronary heart disease (CHD) event registration is obligatory, stroke registration optional), and tolerate these to risk factor changes in the population over a ten year period.
To provide a scientific dissemination facility of the MONICA database in the form of CD files of data and also as a Monograph.
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