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The Longevity Improvement & Fair Evidence (LIFE) Study: Overview of the Study Design and Baseline Participant Profile
Authors
Haruhisa Fukuda, Chieko Ishiguro, Rei Ono, Kosuke Kiyohara
J-Stage
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jea/33/8/33_JE20210513/_article
PMC
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10319523/
Highlighs
- The Longevity Improvement & Fair Evidence (LIFE) Study, launched in 2019, is a multi-region community-based database project.
- This study aims to generate evidence toward extending healthy life expectancy and reducing health disparities in Japan.
- The study currently stores health-related and other data from 1,420,437 residents of 18 municipalities across four prefectures.
- With coverage of all age groups and disease types, the study is expected to be a useful platform for generating real-world evidence from Japan.
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