Future bachelor hypothesis
This will be my last post and will explain with what project I will work for the next 4 months.
For the new project, I will be working with Danish MONICA dataset (http://www.thl.fi/monica/ ). This was a worldwide project where data was collected in order to identify risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. The dataset are quite big and data are still used to be analyzed.
In Denmark, it had started in 1983 and had in total 3608 participants to questionnaires and a detailed health examination. Follow-ups were organized after 2 and 10 years were again they had questionnaires and health examinations. In the end, only 2652 participants have been attending. There wore cases were the participants have died. Moreover, after 30 years (2014) the participants were checked their status (alive or death)through the CPR system.
So, for the bachelor i will analyze the association between BMI, BMI change and waist change AND mortality. This assumed to look like a U shaped association in all the analysis. Further will be examined on family predisposition to obesity and possibly segregated by gender, which is expected now to have somehow a J shape form.
The hypothesis will be that individuals with long lasting obesity or overweight and a family predisposition to obesity are NOT having reduced risk to all-cause mortality.
Can’t wait to learn more about survival analysis in R!
Last reflections about this internship experience
This internship it might be the best thing it happen to me for some time. Not only that I have fulfilled all the learning objectives from my contract, but I have gained valuable experience in the field of epidemiology that only master students, PhD students or post-doc are having. They enabled me to thinking critically and overcome barriers.
I will have to deeply thank everyone in here that supports me and helps me with the process! It was truly a good experience and I hope for many more to come!