Shanghai Pudong Natural Population-based Cohort Establishment and Follow-up

Evidence-based public health approaches to prevent various chronic diseases among population of all ages have been confirmed in recent decades. Yet barriers to implement prevention approaches persist as a result of lack of knowledge about the regularity of changes in health status of people of all ages. The purpose of this study was to learn how best to promote the adoption of evidence based public health practice related to chronic disease prevention.

The whole research plan is based on a prospective cohort study.

Our previous retrospective cohort study collected historical information of the studied cohort from 2014 to 2018 from secondary medical units, residents' community health service centers, emergency departments, and their Healthrecords. Patients' past chronic diseases such as atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases, cancers, hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, metabolic syndrome and other metabolic diseases, information on the history of drug use, and lifestyle (if any) were collected and sorted out. Moreover, information on various chronic disease morbidity and death among members of the cohort were also collected.

The prospective cohort building on the baseline research conducted during 2019-2020. A total of 851 parameters including physical parameters as well as genetic, biologic, demographic, and psychosocial parameters were included. Specifically, baseline research contains the following procedures:

1. Epidemiological survey: Design the Public Health and Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Questionnaire in accordance with the principles and requirements of the cohort study. On the premise of informed notification, data are collected through face-to-face interviews between the studied cohort and investigators who signed the informed consent and received uniform training. Quality control staff will review the questionnaire for quality control. The main content includes demographic sociology, lifestyle, physical exercise, daily eating habits, usage of dietary supplements, personal and family medical history, psychological assessment, and female fertility history.
2. Physical examination: the examination is performed by the clinical professional physician in the health service center. The examination content includes height, weight, blood pressure, hearing, vision, internal surgery, body fat composition (optional), chest radiography, electrocardiogram, B-ultrasound, carotid ultrasound (optional), and other imaging examinations.
3. Clinical biochemical test: fasting blood collection should be performed by all individuals upon their enrollment. The blood samples collected are tested for biochemistry, liver and kidney function, blood lipid analysis, CMV/EBV/HBV DNAs and antibodies, hsCRP, and electrolyte analysis in accordance with clinical testing requirements.
4. Biological specimen collection: collect 10ml blood samples using a health checkup, then send them to Renji sample bank for separation within 2 hours, and store in -80℃ ultra-low temperature refrigerator. The blood samples are for multi-omics and serological studies.