The ongoing second RECORD Study wave

Since February 2011, we have started to invite all of the participants of the RECORD Study to a second health examination and to a second survey wave.

Coordinated by Inserm and by University Pierre et Marie Curie, the second study wave is conducted in collaboration with the Centre d’Investigations Préventives et Cliniques and the University of Montreal.

We have already interviewed and examined 880 participants.

Based on a second measurement of cardiovascular risk factors 4 or 5 years after the baseline measures, we will investigate the extent to which social characteristics of participants and the multiple characteristics of their residential neighborhoods are associated with changes in the cardiovascular risk profile over time.

Moreover, the second wave of the study is particularly interested in mobility, and geocodes a number of activity places to which people regularly go. These data should allow us to incorporate patterns of mobility and “spatial behavior” in the investigation of the effects of the environments on health.