Articles5 year mortality predictors in 498 103 UK Biobank participants: a prospective population-based study
Introduction
Adequate identification and risk stratification of individuals with reduced life expectancy, especially in the middle-aged to elderly population, is an important public health priority1 and a central issue in clinical decision making. Epidemiological studies that obtain several measurements through questionnaires, physical assessments, and biological samples can be done to compare the prognostic value of risk factors of short-term mortality and provide new hypotheses about health determinants. Moreover, these risk factors can be combined into a prognostic index to provide information about individual mortality risk or other health-related measures. Traditionally, association with mortality has been studied for one risk factor at a time,2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and the few studies that have investigated more than one risk factor did not assess different causes of death and based their analyses on small study samples.7 Several prognostic indices for short-term mortality exist, but they have mainly been developed for and assessed in older individuals or in high-risk populations.8, 9 Furthermore, the small sample sizes and the small number of risk factors investigated are the main limitations of all previous studies.
The UK Biobank project10 includes about 500 000 men and women aged 40–70 years. The participants underwent blood draw for biobanking and participated in detailed, questionnaire-based, physical, and biological measurements during 2007–10. Data from these assessments have been made available to all researchers worldwide after an approved application. We aimed to use these data to do a systematic and untargeted investigation of the associations between most of the available measurements and 5 year all-cause and cause-specific mortality. We also aimed to create a prognostic index including only self-reported information to estimate individual mortality risk.
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Study design and participants
Participants were enrolled in the UK Biobank from April, 2007, to July, 2010, from 21 assessment centres across England, Wales, and Scotland using standardised procedures. When participants agreed to take part in UK Biobank, they visited their closest assessment centre to provide baseline information, physical measures, and biological samples. In this prospective population-based study, we included all measurements available on April 10, 2014. We excluded variables that were missing in more
Results
Between April, 2007, and July, 2010, 498 849 participants were enrolled from 21 centres across England, Wales, and Scotland using standardised procedures specified in the protocol. We excluded participants with more than 80% variables missing (n=746), resulting in 498 103 (54% of whom were women) participants included in our main analyses.
Of these 498 103 participants aged 37–73 years, 8532 (39% of whom were women) died during a median follow-up of 4·9 years (IQR 4·33–5·52; table 1). The most
Discussion
In this large, contemporary prospective cohort study, we did an extensive analysis of associations of more than 600 measurements with 5 year all-cause and cause-specific mortality in UK Biobank participants). In this report, we have presented only a small part of our findings; however, all our results are available in an interactive website where the observed associations can be explored in detail to generate new research hypotheses. Several key messages can be deduced from this study. First,
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