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Millennium Cohort: enrollment begins a 21-year contribution to understanding the impact of military service

Ryan, Margaret A.K., Smith, Tyler C., Smith, Besa, Amoroso, Paul, Boyko, Edward J., Gray, Gregory C., Gackstetter, Gary D., Riddle, James R. +4 more·2007·Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
DOI 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.05.009
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Objective In response to health concerns of military members about deployment and other service-related exposures, the Department of Defense (DoD) initiated the largest prospective study ever undertaken in the U.S. military. Study design and setting The Millennium Cohort uses a phased enrollment strategy to eventually include more than 100,000 U.S. service members who will be followed up through the year 2022, even after leaving military service. Subjects will be linked to DoD and Veterans Affairs databases and surveyed every 3 years to obtain objective and self-reported data on exposures and health outcomes. Results The first enrollment phase was completed in July 2003 and resulted in 77,047 consenting participants, well representative of both active-duty and Reserve/Guard forces. This report documents the baseline characteristics of these Cohort members, describes traditional, postal, and Web-based enrollment methods; and describes the unique challenges of enrolling, retaining, and following such a large Cohort. Conclusion The Millennium Cohort was successfully launched and is becoming especially relevant, given current deployment and exposure concerns. The Cohort is representative of the U.S. military and promises to provide new insight into the long-term effects of military occupations on health for years to come.

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  • The control participation rate was 41%, slightly higher than the 36% reported by the Millennium Cohort Study and within the range reported for contemporary population-based case-control studies.

    “At the time of this analysis, 41% of eligible controls had consented to participate, which is a slightly higher rate than the 36% reported by the Millennium Cohort Study (42), and within the range reported for contemporary population-based case-control studies (43).”

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Ryan, M. A. K., Smith, T. C., Smith, B., Amoroso, P., Boyko, E. J., Gray, G. C., Gackstetter, G. D., Riddle, J. R., Wells, T. S., Gumbs, G., Corbeil, T. E., & Hooper, T. I.
Venue
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2007-02
Volume
60
Issue
2
Pages
181-191
ISSN
0895-4356
DOI
10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.05.009
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222
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5
Language
en
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www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)

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