SHARED HEALTH PATTERNS OF PARENTS/CHILDREN AND SIBS

该项目将探讨同一家庭的人与来自同一地区、属于同一群体的不相关的人相比，在成年期的健康经历方面有多大的相似性。研究对象包括1 265名属于保险组织的成年人中的父母、子女和兄弟姐妹，这些保险组织为因病和死亡而失去工作的人支付福利，并因此对其成员的健康状况进行持续监测。这些跨越两代至四代人的记录也将使我们有可能调查，随着时间的推移，慢性和退行性疾病作为疾病和死亡的原因变得相对更重要，家庭因素是否会产生更大的影响。

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.