A detailed analysis of mortality in a longitudinal epidemiological study of men and women in St Petersburg who were first examined in the 1970s

This project is led by Prof D Vågerö, Stockholm University & Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

The objective of this sub-project is to understand mortality variation over time and by social characteristics in Russia. This is done by analysis of a specific cohort of men and women, for whom information on individual characteristics of both a biological and social nature are known in more detail than in many previous studies. Mortality follow-up has been continued into the year 2001, and is still continuing.