title: Follow-up and mortality profiles in the Miyagi Cohort Study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Findings from a large-scale population-based prospective cohort would lead us to better understanding of the relationship between lifestyle and health, thus better provision of strategies for disease prevention and health promotion.
  
  
  METHODS
  We conducted a baseline survey with two self-administered questionnaires regarding lifestyle and personality on the residents aged 40 to 64 years in 14 municipalities of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, during June through August, 1990. Out of the eligible 51,925 residents, 47,605 (91.7%) responded to the lifestyle questionnaire and formed the cohort under study. We then have been following up the subjects for mortality, migration, and incidence of cancer.
  
  
  RESULTS
  During the follow-up from June 1990 through March 2001, 2,536 subjects (5.3%) died and 2,166 subjects (4.5%) emigrated. The distribution of the causes of death among the study subjects was quite consistent with the national average.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this cohort study, both the participation rate and the follow-up rate are satisfactorily high. We expect this Miyagi Cohort Study to provide the society with evidence for health promotion and disease prevention.
authors.affiliation: Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Forensic Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan.
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tsuji
authors.forename: Yoshikazu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nishino
authors.forename: Yoshitaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tsubono
authors.forename: Yoshinori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hozawa
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nakaya
authors.forename: Kazuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: Shinichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kuriyama
authors.forename: Daisuke
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shibuya
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fukao
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hisamichi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002423:Cause of Death; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends*