The Circulatory Risk in Communities Study (CIRCS): A long-term epidemiological study for lifestyle-related disease among Japanese men and women living in communities.

The Circulatory Risk in Communities Study (CIRCS): A long-term epidemiological study for lifestyle-related disease among Japanese men and women living in communities. J Epidemiol. 2018 Dec 22;: Authors: Yamagishi K, Muraki I, Kubota Y, Hayama-Terada M, Imano H, Cui R, Umesawa M, Shimizu Y, Sankai T, Okada T, Sato S, Kitamura A, Kiyama M, Iso H Abstract The Circulatory Risk in Communities Study (CIRCS) is an ongoing community-based epidemiological study of lifestyle-related disease, involving dynamic prospective cohorts of approximately 12,000 adults from 5 communities of Japan: Ikawa, Ishizawa and Kita-Utetsu (Akita), Minami-Takayasu (Osaka), Noichi (Kochi), and Kyowa (Ibaraki). One of the most notable features of CIRCS is that it is not only an observational cohort study to identify risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) such as stroke, coronary heart disease, and sudden cardiac death, but it also involves prevention programs for CVD. Using basic, clinical, epidemiological, and statistical techniques, CIRCS has clarified characteristics of CVD and the related risk factors to develop specific methodologies towards CVD prevention in Japanese middle-aged or older adults for more than half a decade. PMID: 30584233 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Epidemiology - Category: Epidemiology Tags: J Epidemiol Source Type: research