Assessment of self-reported cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in the German National Cohort (GNC, NAKO Gesundheitsstudie): methods and initial results

Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz
Lina JaeschkeTobias Pischon

Abstract

Data on self-reported cardiovascular and metabolic diseases are available for the first 100,000 participants of the population-based German National Cohort (GNC, NAKO Gesundheitsstudie). To describe assessment methods and the frequency of self-reported cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in the German National Cohort. Using a computer-based, standardized personal interview, 101,806 participants (20-75 years, 46% men) from 18 nationwide study centres were asked to use a predefined list to report medical conditions ever diagnosed by a physician, including cardiovascular or metabolic diseases. For the latter, we calculated sex-stratified relative frequencies and compared these with reference data. With regard to cardiovascular diseases, 3.5% of men and 0.8% of women reported to have ever been diagnosed with a myocardial infarction, 4.8% and 1.5% with angina pectoris, 3.5% and 2.5% with heart failure, 10.1% and 10.4% with cardiac arrhythmia, 2.7% and 1.8% with claudicatio intermittens, and 34.6% and 27.0% with arterial hypertension. The frequencies of self-reported diagnosed metabolic diseases were 8.1% and 5.8% for diabetes mellitus, 28.6% and 24.5% for hyperlipidaemia, 7.9% and 2.4% for gout, and 10.1% and 34.3% for thyroid dis...Continue Reading

References

Dec 11, 1999·Annals of Nutrition & Metabolism·H BoeingM M Bergmann
Feb 20, 2010·International Journal of Epidemiology·Henry VölzkeWolfgang Hoffmann
Jun 28, 2012·Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz·H-E WichmannJ Linseisen
Jun 28, 2012·Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz·H Völzke
May 25, 2013·Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz·A GößwaldH Hölling
May 25, 2013·Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz·C Scheidt-NaveM A Busch
May 25, 2013·Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz·C HeidemannC Scheidt-Nave
May 21, 2014·European Journal of Epidemiology·UNKNOWN German National Cohort (GNC) Consortium
Jul 20, 2014·Primary Care Diabetes·Silvia PastorinoUNKNOWN National Survey of Health and Development Scientific and Data Collection Teams
Mar 18, 2015·Clinical Research in Cardiology : Official Journal of the German Cardiac Society·Christoph OhlmeierEdeltraut Garbe
Mar 1, 2018·Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz·Wolfram J HerrmannTobias Pischon

❮ Previous
Next ❯

Related Concepts

Related Feeds

Cardiovascular Disease Pathophysiology

Cardiovascular disease involves several different processes that contribute to the pathological mechanism, including hyperglycemia, inflammation, atherosclerosis, hypertension and more. Vasculature stability plays a critical role in the development of the disease. Discover the latest research on cardiovascular disease pathophysiology here.

Related Papers

Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz
Katharina NimptschTobias Pischon
Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz
Wolfgang Ahrens, K-H Jöckel
Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz
H-E WichmannJakob Linseisen
Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz
Wolfgang AhrensK Günther
© 2021 Meta ULC. All rights reserved