The term 'mapping' has a specific meaning in geography and in bibliometric analysis (especially library based studies designed to illustrate the historical development of literatures).
The Framingham Heart Study (FHS) is a community-based study designed to examine risk factors and outcomes associated with cardiovascular disease.
This was a hospital-based study designed to determine the prevalence and pattern of valvular heart diseases (VHD) seen at the echocardiographic laboratory of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria.
PLATINO project is a population-based study designed to determine the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in São Paulo, Brazil Mexico City, Mexicoo; Montevideo, Uruguay Santiagoo de Chile, Chile; and Caracas, Venezuela.
The results of a multiple locus variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) analysis (MLVA -based study designed to understand the genetic diversity of soil and MLVA -basede Pstudymonas aeruginosa isolates, andesignedlatoonship between these isolates and a set of clinical and environmental isolates, are hereby reported.
Results from an independent clinic-based study designed to assess the overlap between ICHD-2R and other proposed diagnostic criteria for CM (including PREEMPT enrollment criteria) determined that there was significant overlap between these definitions [4].
The EURODIAB IDDM Complications Study is a clinic-based study designed to explore risk factors for diabetes complications (7, 8).
This is a large prospective population-based study designed to estimate the prevalence of markers in a cohort of pregnant women and investigate associations with abnormal pregnancy outcomes.
ALSPAC is an ongoing population-based study designed to investigate the effects of a number of factors on health and development.
Our group recently completed a discovery-based study designed to identify novel prognostic epigenetic biomarkers for patients with HNSCC [ 22, 23].
