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European Congress of Epidemiology 2015, Healthy Living
The report of European Congress of Epidemiology 2015, Healthy Living by Noushin Fahimfar
 
Application Code :
306-0215-0085
 
Created Date : Tuesday, June 9, 2015 16:00:23Update Date : Sunday, September 6, 2015 14:50:35
IP Address : 212.95.159.250Submit Date : Sunday, September 6, 2015 14:52:24Email : nfahimfar@gmail.com
Personal Information
Name : Noushin
Surname : Fahimfar
School/Research center : School of Public Health
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Position : student
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Information of Congress
Title of the Congress : European Congress of Epidemiology 2015, Healthy Living
Title of your Abstract : Risk of coronary heart events in symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals: results of a 10-year follow-up in the population-based cohort of Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS)
Country : Afghanistan
From : Thursday, June 25, 2015
To : Saturday, June 27, 2015
Abstract(Please copy/paste the abstract send to the congress) : Risk of coronary heart events in symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals: results of a 10-year follow-up in the population-based cohort of Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS)
Abstract
Objective: There are non-invasive and low-cost methods to assess high risk individuals for CHD such as Rose angina Questionnaire (RQ) and Minnesota ECG coding. Because of the difference in the applicability of RQ, we aimed to find the risk of incident CHD based on RQ and ECG in an Iranian population.

Materials and Methods: 5431 subjects aged ≥ 30 years (2575 males) were included from a population based cohort study conducting within the framework of the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study. We classified the participants into five categories according to presence of past history of CHD, RQ and ECG status at the baseline i) History-Rose-ECG- (the reference group), ii) History-Rose-ECG+, iii) History-Rose+ECG-, iv) History-Rose+ECG+, and v) History+. A Cox regression model was used to detect the role of RQ and ECG independent of other risk factors.

Results: During a median follow up of 10.3 years, 562 CHD events (320 males) were observed. Incidence rates (95% CIs) of new CHD for people with and without history of CHD, were 55.9 (46.7-67) and 9.09 (8.28-9.97) cases per 1000 person-year, respectively. Compared to the reference group, HRs (95% CIs) were 4.11 (3.27-5.11) for CHD+, 2.18 (1.63-2.90) for History-Rose+ECG-, 1.92 (1.47-2.51) for History-Rose-ECG+ and 2.48 (1.46-4.20) for History-Rose+ECG+ in adjusted model.

Conclusion:
High incidence rate of new CHD was detected in subjects with CHD self reported history and must be considered precisely. Rose questionnaire showed a good performance in the prediction of CHD events in both gender and can be assumed as a simple and valuable clinical screening tool to detect high risk subjects even in the absence of ECG abnormalities. ECG is also a strong tool to predict CHD events in both genders, especially in asymptomatic patients. 
Keywords of your Abstract : Recurrent Coronary heart diseases, population bases based cohort, TLGS, Iran, Rose questionnaire, ECG
Acceptance Letter : http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/images/UserFiles/25062/Forms/306/Acceptance_email_Confirmed_with_Dr_Khalili.pdf
The presentation : Poster
The Cover of Abstract book : http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/images/UserFiles/25062/Forms/306/Cover_of_Abstract_book.pdf
Published abstract in the abstract book with the related code : http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/images/UserFiles/25062/Forms/306/Page_275.pdf
Where has your abstract been indexed? : ISI
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The Congress Reporting Form
How many volunteers were present at the Congress? : More than 600 participants
Delegates from which countries presented in the congress? : There are many participants from other countries like Germany, UK, Finland, Brazil, Australia, etc. The list of participants is attached and is available in congress' site
Were the delegates of any other organizations present in the congress? : No
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What were the responses to your talking points? Were specific questions or concerns raised? : The participants appreciated the valuable cohort study in our country. They asked some question about running the chohorts and statistical methods which we had used in that project.
If you met staff members, please list their full names & positions. : I did not meet any staff members
Please inform us if there are any follow up actions we need to talk with the members of the congress : There is nothing more which needs to be followed. The abstract book has been uploaded on the site during workshop. Also, the abstracts will be published in the supplementary of “European Journal of Epidemiology" in the next series .
Each interested person can have access to te abstract book in the site of Healthy living congress
Your experiences about the travel processes(Providing ticket, accommodation,...) : It was the second participation of mine in the international congresses which was held in European countries. In my opinion it is important to have accomodation near the place which congress will be held because og high cost of transportation in European countries, although in this congress the public transportation was free for participants by the participation card. To me, improving the English language is so necessary to get the best result from congress. Both listening and speaking are important indeed. I think the knowledge of Iranian PhD student is so good but sometimes they cannot present their abilities due to some limitations in speaking fluently and confidently . I certainly try to improve myself and hope to participate in the next congress more strongly.People in the Netherlands knew the English very well , even elderly, and we had not any problem to communicate with others. It is not necessary to know Dutch if you want to go to the "Netherlands". In one word, to have good output, we should know the scientific language very well.
Please give a briefing of your own observations and outcomes of the congress: : I want to highlight their good management and being on schedule.
It was a good experience in communication with other students and academic persons abroad. In my opinion the lectures and oral presentations were very valuable especially a lecture which was related to CVD risk prediction models. It was exactly in line with my interests and gave many valuable points to me. Professor " Karen Moon" was the lecturer who is one of the most famous clinical epidemiologists in the world and has many publications in high impact journals related to prediction models.