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. 2019 Jan 21:8:82.
doi: 10.12688/f1000research.17457.1. eCollection 2019.

The Hertfordshire Cohort Study: an overview

Holly E Syddall #  1 , Shirley J Simmonds #  1 , Sarah A Carter  1 , Sian M Robinson  1   2 , Elaine M Dennison  1 , Cyrus Cooper  1   2   3 ; Hertfordshire Cohort Study Research Group
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The Hertfordshire Cohort Study: an overview

Holly E Syddall et al. F1000Res. .

Abstract

The Hertfordshire Cohort Study is a nationally unique study of men and women born in the English county of Hertfordshire in the early part of the 20 th century. Records that detail their health in infancy and childhood have been preserved, their sociodemographic, lifestyle, medical and biological attributes have been characterised in later life, and routinely collected data on their hospital use and mortality have been acquired. This paper provides an overview of the study since its inception in the 1980s, including its methods, findings, and plans for its future.

Keywords: Ageing; Cohort Study; Epidemiology; Hertfordshire; Lifecourse; Musculoskeletal.

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No competing interests were disclosed.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. An extract from the Hertfordshire ledgers.
Source: original Hertfordshire ledger, on loan from the Hertfordshire Local Studies Archive; currently stored securely at the MRC LEU.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. Participant recruitment and summary of studies carried out from 1998–2018.
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