Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration - APCSC
Factsheets:
Aims:
APCSC was initiated to provide direct, reliable evidence about determinants of stroke, coronary heart disease and other common causes of death in Asia-Pacific populations. For further information about this study, please visit the APCSC website at www.apcsc.info.
Methods:
The APCSC is a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data from cohort studies in the Asia-Pacific region, including the largest known medical database in the region, and one of the largest ever in the world. Investigators from all major cohort studies with information on blood pressure and causes of death have been invited to participate. Where available, repeat measurements of blood pressure and other cardiovascular risk factors are used to correct associations for regression dilution.
Status/Results:
Several presentations of APCSC data have been made in Australia, Asia, UK and the USA, and more than 20 papers have now been published or accepted for publication. Several more papers are in preparation. Analyses of cancer outcomes in APCSC began in 2004 and, to date, two papers on the topics of pancreatic cancer and the impact of smoking cessation on lung cancer in the Asia-Pacific Region have been accepted for publication.
second apcsc collaborators meeting 6 7 september 2004 beijing china
Publications:
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Institute Investigators:
- Rachel Huxley
- Anushka Patel
- Federica Barzi
- Alireza Ansari Moghaddam
- Alexandra Martiniuk
Collaboration:
- University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China
- Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Japan
- Shiga University, Japan
- Yonsei University, South Korea
- More than eighty investigators representing 44 cohorts from eight countries