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On our selection: Australian longitudinal research studies
Author(s) -
Gregory Ann T,
Armstrong Ruth M,
Grassi Tanya D,
Gaut Bronwyn,
Van Der Weyden Martin B
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb02230.x
Subject(s) - library science , management , computer science , economics
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 1/15 December 2008 189 11/12 650-657 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2008 www.mja.com.au Research enterprise ham equation. It is because of such findings implications that the British doctors study and the Heart Study from the United States are among the known longitudinal studies. The stories of these land in the fields of epidemiology and public health have told; but longitudinal researchers have also bee Australia, with implications for our particular popu wider world. We selected just a few of these (Box 1) — he acc sio T association between smoking and lung cancer is now an epted fact. Every day, doctors base management decins on cardiovascular risk calculated using the Framingand practical Framingham world’s best mark studies already been n at work in lation and the studies that have already demonstrated some longevity and which we judged would be of particular interest to our readership — and interviewed some of their key investigators. What are their stories? How will they make their mark in medicine?