Essay On Potsdam Study

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METHODS Study population The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and nutrition (EPIC)-Potsdam study is part of the EPIC, a large-scale Europe-wide prospective cohort study. EPIC–Potsdam recruited 27,548 participants aged between 35 and 64 years from 1994 to 1998. Further details regarding the design, recruitment, and follow-up the EPIC-Potsdam cohort study is presented elsewhere.[19, 20] Informed consent was obtained from all study participants and ethical approval was given by the Ethics Committee of the State of Brandenburg, Germany. Between 2010 and 2012, a sub-sample of 1,472 participants out of 23,881 active participants was invited to attend the study centre for various assessments. These participants were selected using a …show more content…

In addition, educational attainment, occupation, selected lifestyle factors such as physical activity, diet, and smoking status was available from the self-administered questionnaires and interview at baseline or the first invitation (figure 1). Information on chronic diseases, which rheumatic conditions were collected during regular follow-up of the entire cohort where participants self-report incident diseases which were then medically verified.[20] During visit to the study centre, participants reported in a questionnaire on the number of natural teeth: ‘how many natural teeth do you currently have?’ and history of periodontitis: ‘has your dentist ever told you that you have periodontitis (yes or no)?’). Support was given by the study nurse when participants could not spontaneously respond to the questions. Finally, participants also provided a list of all the medications that were used within 7 days. The intake of antibiotics, nonsteroidal anti–inflammatory drugs (NSAID) and classic synthetic and/or biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARD) were retrieved from the medication

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