3.7. Queries from the Twin Project
At Analytikerna and Lentus, we have been doing the systems and
field work for a big research project. This project is a
collaboration between the Institute of Environmental Medicine at
Karolinska Institutet Stockholm and the Section on Clinical
Research in Aging and Psychology at the University of Southern
California.
The project involves a screening part where all twins in Sweden
older than 65 years are interviewed by telephone. Twins who meet
certain criteria are passed on to the next stage. In this latter
stage, twins who want to participate are visited by a doctor/nurse
team. Some of the examinations include physical and
neuropsychological examination, laboratory testing, neuroimaging,
psychological status assessment, and family history collection. In
addition, data are collected on medical and environmental risk
factors.
More information about Twin studies can be found at:
https://www.mep.ki.se/twinreg/index_en.html
The latter part of the project is administered with a Web
interface written using Perl and MySQL.
Each night all data from the interviews is moved into a MySQL
database.
