Open AccessLarge Cohort Data Based Cost-Effective Disease Prevention Design Strategy: Strong Heart Study
Author(s) -
Wenyu Wang,
Elisa T. Lee,
Barbara V. Howard,
Richard B. Devereux,
Ying Zhang,
Julie A. Stoner
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
world journal of cardiovascular diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2164-5337
pISSN - 2164-5329
DOI - 10.4236/wjcd.2018.812058
Subject(s) - medicine , cohort , disease , cohort study , intervention (counseling) , epidemiology , risk analysis (engineering) , nursing , pathology
A multitude of large cohort studies have collected data on incidence and covariates/risk factors of various chronic diseases. However, approaches for utilization of these large data and translation of the valuable results to inform and guide clinical disease prevention practice are not well developed. In this paper, we proposed, based on large cohort study data, a novel conceptual cost-effective disease prevention design strategy for a target group when it is not affordable to include everyone in the target group for intervention.