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Predictors of cardiovascular disease mortality in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study

Investigators

Kerin O'Dea*, Graham Giles, Allison Hodge, Andrew Sinclair*, Kevin Rowley*, David O'Neal*, Andrew Tonkin*, Dianna Magliano* (*External collaborators)

Objective

To examine the associations between cardiovascular disease and coronary heart disease mortality, and dietary, anthropometric and other risk factors in The Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study.

Publications

Beauchamp A, Peeters A, Wolfe R, Turrell G, Harriss LR, Giles GG, English DR, McNeil J, Magliano D, Harrap S, Liew D, Hunt D, Tonkin A. Inequalities in cardiovascular disease mortality: The role of behavioural, physiological and social risk factors. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2010;64:542-548

Harriss LR, Ajani AE, Hunt D, Shaw J, Chambers B, Dewey H, Frayne J, Beauchamp A, Duve K, Giles GG, Harrap S, Magliano DJ, Liew D, McNeil J, Peeters A, Stebbing M, Wolfe R, Tonkin A. Accuracy of national mortality codes in identifying adjudicated cardiovascular deaths. Aust N Z J Public Health. 2011;35:466-476