SHARED HEALTH PATTERNS OF PARENTS/CHILDREN AND SIBS

这个项目将探索同一家庭中的人在成年后与来自相同地区、属于相同队列的无关人士在健康经历方面的相似程度。研究人群将包括1265名成年人中的父母和子女以及兄弟姐妹，这些成年人属于保险组织，这些组织为因病和死亡而失去工作的人支付福利，并因此将其成员的健康置于持续监测之下。这些跨越两到四代人的记录还将使人们能够调查，随着慢性和退化性疾病作为疾病和死亡原因变得相对更重要，家庭因素是否随着时间的推移承担更大的权重。

This project will explore the degree to which people in the same family share similarities in health experience in adulthood, compared to unrelated people from the same locales and belonging to the same cohorts. The study population will consist of the parents and children and siblings among 1,265 adults belonging to insurance organizations that paid benefits for work loss because of sickness and death, and for those reasons kept their members' health under continuous surveillance. These records, which extend across two to four generations, will also make it possible to investigate whether family factors assume greater weight over time as chronic and degenerative diseases became relatively more important as causes of sickness and death.