AQMeN - Applied Quantitative Methods Network

Seminar presented by:

Catherine Bromley, Scottish Centre for Social Research and Linsay Gray and Joel Hotchkiss, Social and Public Health Sciences Unit

The Scottish Health Survey is a major resource for the research community in Scotland and elsewhere that focuses on cardiovascular disease and its risk factors.  It was conducted in 1995, 1998, 2003, and since 2008, has been run on a continuous basis. The survey combines face to face interview data with physical measurements taken by interviewers and nurses (e.g. height, weight, blood pressure and lung function) and biological samples (blood, urine and saliva).

This seminar will illustrate the analytic value of the cross-sectional survey daya, the physical measurements and data linkage to NHS records.  The speakers will:

• present an overview of the survey and an update of the latest developments
• highlight some of the study's cross-sectional findings
• present analyses of dietary patterns and other lifestyle factors on mortality, the predictive capacity of lung-function measurements, and the association of obesity with coronary heart disease events and mortality (using the linked dataset).

This is a local event organised by the AQMeN Edinburgh group, and is free for all members to attend.  Place are limited, so please sign up below if you wish to attend.

Venue:
Room 1.11, First floor meeting suites,
University of Edinburgh Main Library,
George Square, Edinburgh