Socioeconomic position and lifestyle often affect participation in scientific studies. The
authors investigated differences in overall and cause-specific mortality between participants …

Study objective: To assess total and cause specific mortality among participants and non-
participants of large population based health surveys. Design: A prospective follow up study …

Aims: Diet is considered an important aspect of lifestyle related to cancer development. To
contribute further knowledge within this field a Danish prospective cohort study``Diet …

Valid generalizations of results from population-based epidemiological surveys requires
knowledge about how representative the sample is. The Copenhagen Center for …

Few studies have examined whether sex differences in mortality are associated with
different distributions of risk factors or result from the unique relationships between risk …

Background Gender differences in premature mortality rates and in the size of
socioeconomic inequalities in mortality vary across countries. Purpose We aimed to quantify …

Background: Declining response rates pose a serious threat to the validity of estimates
derived from epidemiological studies. If respondents and non-respondents differ …

The general willingness to participate in health surveys is decreasing, resulting in
increasingly selected study populations. We aimed to examine relative mortality rates by …

Objectives We examined whether using repeatedly measured material and behavioral
factors contributed differently to socioeconomic inequalities in all-cause mortality compared …

Study objective: To analyse socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in Dutch, Turkish,
Moroccans, Surinamese, and Antillean/Aruban men and women living in the Netherlands …