2018
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-018-5364-2
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The protocol of a population-based prospective cohort study in southwest of Iran to analyze common non-communicable diseases: Shahrekord cohort study

Abstract: BackgroundProspective cohort studies are considered ideal choices to study multiple outcomes and risk factors for Non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Our aim is to set-up the protocol and analyze risk factors, incidence rates, prevalence, trends, and the models of environmental and genetic determinants of NCDs and their outcomes as well as interaction among such determinants.MethodsShahrekord cohort study (SCS) that is a population-based prospective, study on a cohort consisting of people aged 35-70 years starte… Show more

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“…The annual follow-ups of the cohort (200,000 cases per year) were designed to be conducted up to 2036. Detailed information regarding SCS has previously been published [15].…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The annual follow-ups of the cohort (200,000 cases per year) were designed to be conducted up to 2036. Detailed information regarding SCS has previously been published [15].…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Since population, ethnography, self-care culture, and health literacy differ in various provinces in Iran, and no studies regarding health literacy questionnaires have been performed in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari (Iran), the present study aimed to assess the construct validity of HELIA questionnaire and determine the health literacy status in Shahrekord cohort study (SCS), which is the largest population-based study conducted in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province [15], so that its application is considered to be an important variable in the measurement of health literacy.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This study was designed to serve as one of the sources of the Prospective Epidemiological Research Studies in Iran. 7…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Despite its relatively small area (1% of the total area of Iran), CH&B holds 10% of the country's water resources. Because of its mountainous nature and its location where moist Mediterranean air converges, this province has relatively abundant rainfall (18,19). Because of the rare ethnic groups (Bakhtiari), Fars, and Turk living in this region, this cohort is unique in Iran and worldwide (18).…”
Section: Settingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Tabari (17), and Arabs, among other ethnicities (13). No cohort study was previously conducted in the Bakhtiari ethnicity; therefore, the Shahrekord Cohort Study (SCS), as one of the PERSIAN Cohort Centers, has lled this gap to assess health patterns and risk factors in individuals from the Bakhtiari ethnicity (18). SCS was therefore conducted to study NCDs in an Iranian province with distinctive environmental, geographical (the highest region above sea level in Iran), and ethnic and social (Bakhtiari) characteristics compared with other Iranian provinces and the rest of the world.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%