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"The cohort’s leaders recruit babies born at the Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center. Only families planning to live in the southern Chinese city for
by sparrish 8y ago
"The cohort’s leaders recruit babies born at the Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center. Only families planning to live in the southern Chinese city for a long time have been recruited"
Limited ethnic and geographical selection of participants means this 'slew' of data will likely be less valuable than this article lets on. Helpful to that immediate area? yes.
- mc32 8y agoIf it’s applicable to 20% - 30% of people for whom we previously didn’t have medical studies on, this could prove a boon to medicine. In addition for the vast majority of things this is applicable to 100% of people.
- relenzo 8y agoI have to say, the impressive scale of this data collection probably means it will still have some uses. And for Chinese health & medicine, it's simply a massive deal, if everything was done correctly.
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- ssdd 8y agoWhy is this data such a big deal? Didn't US should already have enough medical data of its citizens for study?
- freeone3000 8y agoThey're tracking from birth, and the data is public.
- gowld 8y agoIt's better than using only USA data for the whole world...