Background From the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, the WHO MONICA Project monitored
coronary events and classic risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) in 38 populations …

Aims: Up-to-date information on the accuracy between different anthropometric data
collection methods is vital for the reliability of anthropometric data. A previous review on this …

As one of the core elements of the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU) a
human biomonitoring (HBM) survey was conducted in 23 countries to generate EU-wide …

Summary Background The WHO MONICA (monitoring trends and determinants in
cardiovascular disease) Project monitored, from the early 1980s, trends over 10 years in …

Background To help adapt cardiovascular disease risk prediction approaches to low-income
and middle-income countries, WHO has convened an effort to develop, evaluate, and …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between secular trends in energy supply and body
mass index (BMI) among several countries. DESIGN: Aggregate level analyses of annually …

When estimating population level changes in health indicators, the declining response rate,
especially if also the characteristics of non-respondents are changing may bias the outcome …

The population-based National FINRISK Study (later FINRISK Study) was initiated in 1972 in
Finland to carry out the evaluation of the North Karelia Project, a large community-based …

Abstract BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) MONICA Project was
established to determine how trends in event rates for coronary heart disease (CHD) and …

Background and purpose Administrative registers, like hospital discharge registers and
causes of death registers are used for the monitoring of disease incidences and in the follow …