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Epidemiological Studies of Health Effects of General Examinations

NCT02719678 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 17845

Last updated 2016-03-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The effect of systematic health examinations and screening of the general population is under debate. Recently, a large Danish randomized study found that systematic screening of risk factors and lifestyle advice in the general population did not have a preventive effect on coronary heart disease, stroke or all-cause mortality. However, there are still very few completed randomized studies, and the effect on other diseases remains unclear. The purpose is to investigate whether repeated health examinations with screening of various risk factors in an unselected population prevent long-term incidence of ischemic heart disease, stroke, total and cause-specific mortality, diabetes, dementia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and various forms of cancer. A preliminary protocol was submitted and approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency before the registry-based data on primary and secondary outcomes were received by the investigator.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

General health checks

The intervention group is invited to up to three general health checks over a 10-year period

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Glostrup University Hospital, Copenhagen

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Allan Linneberg · Research Centre for Prevention and Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
30 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1982-01-31
Primary Completion
1984-12-31
Completion
2014-09-30

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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Diseases

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