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dc.contributor.authorNess, ARen_US
dc.contributor.authorReynolds, LAen_US
dc.contributor.authorTansey, EMen_US
dc.contributor.editorREYNOLDS, LAen_US
dc.contributor.editorTANSEY, EMen_US
dc.contributor.editorNESS, ARen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-11-01T11:12:57Z
dc.date.issued2002en_US
dc.identifier.isbn0854840818en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9780854840816en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/2901
dc.description©The Trustee of the Wellcome Trust, London, 2002. First published by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2002. All volumes are freely available online at: www.history.qmul.ac.uk/research/modbiomed/wellcome_witnesses/en_US
dc.descriptionAnnotated and edited A4 transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 23 March 1999, with extracts from a Witness Seminar on the MRC Pneumoconious Unit held on 9 November 1994. Introduction by Professor George Davey Smith.
dc.descriptionAnnotated and edited A4 transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 23 March 1999, with extracts from a Witness Seminar on the MRC Pneumoconious Unit held on 9 November 1994. Introduction by Professor George Davey Smith.
dc.descriptionAnnotated and edited A4 transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 23 March 1999, with extracts from a Witness Seminar on the MRC Pneumoconious Unit held on 9 November 1994. Introduction by Professor George Davey Smith.
dc.descriptionAnnotated and edited A4 transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 23 March 1999, with extracts from a Witness Seminar on the MRC Pneumoconious Unit held on 9 November 1994. Introduction by Professor George Davey Smith.en_US
dc.descriptionAnnotated and edited A4 transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 23 March 1999, with extracts from a Witness Seminar on the MRC Pneumoconious Unit held on 9 November 1994. Introduction by Professor George Davey Smith.en_US
dc.descriptionAnnotated and edited A4 transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 23 March 1999, with extracts from a Witness Seminar on the MRC Pneumoconious Unit held on 9 November 1994. Introduction by Professor George Davey Smith.en_US
dc.description.abstractPopulation-based research in south Wales was initially to investigate occupational lung disease in miners. Archie Cochrane, the renowned epidemiologist, and his clinical and environmental studies group at the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit at Llandough Hospital, Cardiff, conducted respiratory and blood pressure surveys of workers in the Welsh valleys. In 1960 the epidemiological studies were separated from pneumoconiosis research and detailed studies began in the new Epidemiological Research Unit (South Wales) in Cardiff on glaucoma, dust diseases in flax, asbestos, steel and slate workers, with later work on iron deficiency anaemia, environmental lead, migraine, asthma, and two high-profile trials showing improved survival following a heart attack with regular use of aspirin and with consumption of a diet rich in oily fish. Statisticians and field workers made important contributions to both randomized controlled trials and observational studies at the unit over five decades. Selections from archived interviews with former members of both units appear as well as a section on the impact on data analysis from steadily increasing computational capacity. Contributors include: the late Dr David Bainton, Sir Christopher Booth, Dr Michael Burr, the late Dr Jeffrey Chapman, Professor Sir Richard Doll (Chair), Dr Peter Elwood, the late Dr Joan Faulkner, Dr Philip D’Arcy Hart, Dr Julian Tudor Hart, Mr Nick Henderson, the late Dr Sheila Howarth, Mrs Janie Hughes, Dr Philip Hugh-Jones, Mrs Marion Jones, Professor Stewart Kilpatrick, the late Dr Bill Miall, Dr Shaun Murphy, Dr Andy Ness, Professor John Pemberton, Professor George Davey Smith, Dr Selwyn St Leger, Dr Stephen Stansfeld, Professor David Strachan, Mr Peter Sweetnam, Dr Hugh Thomas, Mrs Mary Thomas, Dr David Tyrrell, Professor Owen Wade, Professor Estlin Waters, Dr Jean Weddell, Mrs Sheila Wright and Dr John Yarnell. Ness A R, Reynolds L A, Tansey E M. (eds) (2002) Population-based Research in South Wales: The MRC Pneumoconiosis Research Unit and the MRC Epidemiology Unit, Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol. 13. London: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is a registered charity, no. 210183.en_US
dc.format.extenti - 150 (169)en_US
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dc.publisherWellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLen_US
dc.relation.ispartofWellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicineen_US
dc.subjectpneumoconiosisen_US
dc.subjectX-rayen_US
dc.subjectaspirinen_US
dc.subjectlead in wateren_US
dc.subjectProfessor Archie Cochraneen_US
dc.titlePopulation-based Research in South Wales: The MRC Pneumoconiosis Research Unit and the MRC Epidemiology Uniten_US
dc.typeBook
dc.rights.holderCopyright © 2003 by The Royal Society of Medicine
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pubs.place-of-publicationLondonen_US
pubs.publication-statusPublisheden_US
pubs.volume13en_US


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