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Cohort profile: the Swedish Prescribed Drugs and Health Cohort (SPREDH).

Shao-Hua XieGiola SantoniFredrik MattssonEivind Ness-JensenJesper Lagergren
Published in: BMJ open (2019)
The data in SPREDH can be used for various types of epidemiological research, particularly for examining how the use of the selected medications influences disease risk and other outcomes. We are initially planning cohort studies and nested case-control studies on selected medications in relation to the risk and prognosis of oesophageal and gastric cancers.
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