Risk and Risk Factor Modeling Project. Abstract, Executive Summary and Final211 Report

摘要

This project produced a comprehensive model, the Risk and Risk Factor Model, of211u001ethe risks of death, hospitalization, and nursing home admission as functions of a 211u001ecommon set of biomedical and behavioral risk factors. The relationship on which 211u001ethe model is based were estimated with data from a nationally representative 211u001esample of noninstitutionalized U.S. adults, the Epidemiologic Follow-up Study 211u001e(NHEFS) of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I). The 211u001emodel can be used to project the health efforts of risk factor modification over 211u001ea 20-year period in a common framework that assures that comparisons across 211u001einterventions are valid. It is thus particularly appropriate for studies of the 211u001eeffectiveness and cost-effectiveness of preventive interventions.