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Research Findings Resulting from OHS Data

Harmonization of the Health and Risk Factor Questionnaire data of the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project: a descriptive analysis

Apr 23, 2019

The Ontario Health Study is one of five regional cohorts that make up the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project, a health research platform using data and biosamples from more than 300,000 Canadians. The complex process of harmonizing a subset of data collected by each of the five regional cohorts, so that they are standardized and comparable as a unique dataset, is explained in this CMAJ Open paper.
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The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project: a pan-Canadian platform for research on chronic disease prevention

Jun 11, 2018

The Ontario Health Study is the largest contributor to Canada’s biggest national health research platform, the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP). This CMAJ paper provides an overview of the CPTP, its design, data access process, and cohort profile. It positions the CPTP as a unique resource for researchers interested in the complex interactions between phenotypes, genotypes and environmental exposures.
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Atopic dermatitis and risk of hypertension, type-2 diabetes, myocardial infarction and stroke in a cross-sectional analysis from the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project

Sep 10, 2017

Dr. Aaron Drucker’s group at Brown University used data from the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP) to look at whether atopic dermatitis is a risk factor for cardiovascular and other diseases.

Read the article in the British Journal of Dermatology.

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