The UNC Alumni Heart Study

This page was last updated on March 05, 2009 

Study News

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Here is the link to the WEB VERSION of QUESTIONNAIRE 12


This Questionnaire should only take about 10-20 minutes to complete.
Please plan to do it in one sitting, as you cannot save it and finish later.
It's set up this way for security reasons (data will only travel one way, from you to us) as we intend for your data to be as secure as possible.
Q12 contains our usual questions regarding your health and any updates,
as well as a new section on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Thank you for choosing to complete the Web version of the Q.
We will save over $4.00 for each questionnaire packet that we do not have to send out, as well as saving a good amount of paper and ink.


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Professor W. Grant Dahlstrom, who collected the original MMPI data
and remained an active co-investigator in the study passed away just
after our last Newsletter. Please CLICK HERE for a remembrance of his career,
published in the American Psychologist.

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The response rate to our most recent Questionnaires has been very good. Out of 5,692 study members active on March 6, 2008, we have 3,337 completed Q12s as of March 05, 2009

With Q11, we received responses from 3,736 members, after mailing out 5,691 Questionnaire packets on May 30, 2006, making our response rate about 66%.
595 study members completed this Q online.

For Q10, we mailed 5,730 Questionnaire packets to our study
members on May 24,2004 and received 4,402 responses, a whopping 77% !
656 of those were completed on our WEB version of the Q, about 15%.

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Recently Published/Submitted for Publication
UNC Alumni Heart Study 
Journal Articles



Prediction of All-Cause Mortality by the Minnesota Multiphasic
Personality Inventory Optimism-Pessimism Scale Scores:
Study of a College Sample During a 40-Year Follow-up Period
Beverly H. Brummett, PHD; Michael J. Helms, BS;
W. Grant Dahlstrom, PHD; and Ilene C. Siegler, PHD, MPH
Published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings 12/2006

NEO personality domains and gender predict
levels and trends in body mass index over 14 years during midlife
Beverly H. Brummett, Michael A. Babyak, Redford B. Williams,
John C. Barefoot, Paul T. Costa, Ilene C. Siegler
Published 2005 in Journal of Research in Personality

Associations Among Personality, BMI, and Dietary Quality
in University of North Carolina Alumni Heart Study Marital Dyads
(submitted for review February 2006)

Past
UNC Alumni Heart Study 
Journal Articles

Patterns of Change in Hostility from College to Midlife in
the UNC Alumni Heart Study Predict High-Risk Status
Ilene C. Siegler, PHD, MPH, Paul T. Costa, PHD,
Beverly H. Brummett, PHD, Michael J. Helms, BS,
John C. Barefoot, PHD, Redford B. Williams, MD,
W. Grant Dahlstrom, PHD, Berton H. Kaplan, PHD,
Peter P. Vitaliano, PHD, Milton Z. Nichaman MD, SCD,
R. Sue Day, PHD, AND Barbara K. Rimer, DRPH
Published 2003 in Psychosomatic Medicine

Alcoholic beverage preference, diet,
and health habits in the UNC Alumni Heart Study
John C Barefoot, Morten Grønbæk, John R Feaganes,
R Sue McPherson, Redford B Williams, and Ilene C Siegler
Am J Clin Nutr 2002;76:466–72. Printed in USA. © 2002
American Society for Clinical Nutrition


Past UNC Alumni Heart Study Newsletters

Our Most Recent Newsletter
(March 2008)

Past Newsletter
(October 2005)

Past Newsletter
(February 2004)

Past Newsletter
(August 2001)

Do you have an Address Change?
Question or comment about the Study?

Email us at study@uncahs.org
or call us any time at (800) 233-5912

** Please include your Study ID Number in your email
(found near your name on address labels and questionnaires)**


 
 
 

Heart Disease/Stroke 

Do you have a new condition or procedure to report?
Authorization to Release Medical Information 
to The UNC Alumni Heart Study 
We are seeking Medical Records for the following events: 

Coronary Artery Disease (blocked arteries)
Heart Attack
Stroke
Angioplasty (PTCA)
Bypass Surgery (CABG)
Heart Catheterization (Angiography)
Stent placement
Atherectomy

The Newsletter and Medical Records Release Form are PDF files. 
You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed
in order to read and to print them.
For a FREE copy of Acrobat Reader, CLICK HERE .