Of 561 patients in the cohort, 11 individuals had either emigrated or could not be located, and 204/561 patients (36.4%) were deceased by 2006.
Of those, 1216 were excluded from analysis, either because they had a diagnosis of cancer recorded prior to their first birth, or because they had emigrated and could not be traced.
Of these, 1556 women were excluded from analysis, either because they had a diagnosis of cancer recorded prior to their first birth, or because they had emigrated and could not be traced during follow-up.
26 MONICall: all of the original 4581 individuals eligible for MONICA1were eligible for invitation to MONICA10 but 451 had either died, emigrated or could not be reached; thus, 4130 were invited.
Some of the Iraqi refugees who fled the violence in their country and emigrated to Jordan could not cope with the public school system, and many turned to informal schools outside the system.
One strain of this population 4, CBS 117238, originated from a brain infection in a human in the United Kingdom; whether this patient had emigrated from China could not be determined from the original publication (25 ).
At the end of follow-up, 28 320 out of the 174 541 cohort members were recorded as having died, 4579 were recorded as having emigrated and 1036 could not be traced satisfactorily.
Forty-eight persons died before they could be contacted, eight persons were excluded due to insufficient knowledge of the Swedish language, four had emigrated and two could not be traced, leaving 911 persons eligible for inclusion (764 women and 147 men).
He emigrated to Canada, but could not forget the events of that day, and from his new home he wrote to Gertie Anderson, enclosing a hand-drawn map of where her husband's last steps had taken him that evening.
Participants who had emigrated and whose vital status could not be confirmed were treated as censored cases.
