Cohort profile: The Tasmanian Longitudinal Health STUDY (TAHS)

MC Matheson; MJ Abramson; K Allen; G Benke; JA Burgess; JG Dowty; B Erbas; IH Feather; PA Frith; GG Giles; LC Gurrin; GS Hamilton; JL Hopper; AL James; MA Jenkins; DP Johns; CJ Lodge; AJ Lowe; J Markos; SC Morrison; JL Perret; MC Southey; PS Thomas; BR Thompson; R Wood-Baker; EH Walters; SC Dharmage

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Cohort profile: The Tasmanian Longitudinal Health STUDY (TAHS)

MC Matheson, MJ Abramson, K Allen, G Benke, JA Burgess, JG Dowty, B Erbas, IH Feather, PA Frith, GG Giles, LC Gurrin, GS Hamilton, JL Hopper, AL James, MA Jenkins, DP Johns, CJ Lodge, AJ Lowe, J Markos, SC Morrison Show all

International Journal of Epidemiology | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyw028

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Michael Abramson Author

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Funding Acknowledgements

The baseline 1968 study received its initial funding in 1967 from the Tasmanian Asthma Foundation, and since that time the study has received funding from several sources for different follow-up waves and components of the study. Funding bodies have included the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (grants #299901, #454425, #566931 #628513 and #1021275); Clifford Craig Medical Research Trust of Tasmania; Victorian, Queensland, and Tasmanian Asthma Foundations; the Australian Lung Foundation; Helen Macpherson Smith Trust; Royal Hobart Hospital Research Foundation; GlaxoSmithKline and the University of Melbourne.