1. History of the Rochester Epidemiology Project
L. Joseph Melton, M.D. 
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2. Fig. 1 Sources of data for the RochesterEpidemiology Project.
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3. Fig. 2
Trends in age-adjusted incidence of hip fractures among Rochester, Minnesota, women in comparison with hospital dismissal data from the United States and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
(Modified from Melton LJ. Epidemiology of fractures in North America. In: Christiansen C, Overgaard K, editors. Osteoporosis Copenhagen: Osteopress ApS, 1990: 36–41. By permission.)
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4. Fig. 3
Distribution by gender and age of patients with Alzheimer's disease from Rochester, Minnesota, in comparison with Mayo Clinic patients referred from elsewhere.
(Data from Kokmen and associates.13)
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5. Fig. 4
Long-term survival among Rochester, Minnesota, residents first diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) from 1905 through 1984 in comparison with expected survival for US white population of comparable age and gender.
(From Wynn DR, Rodriguez M, O'Fallon WM, Kurland LT. A reappraisal of the epidemiology of multiple sclerosis in Olmsted County, Minnesota. Neurology 1990; 40:780–786. By permission.)
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6. Fig. 5
Number of persons examined at Mayo Clinic during 3-year period, stratified by gender and age, as proportion of total Olmsted County population in For example, number of women 65 to 74 years old examined in 1989 was 65% of total number estimated to reside in Olmsted County on basis of 1990 census. Additional women equal to 22% of total were examined in 1990, whereas a number of women equal to 9% of total were examined in 1991 who had not been assessed in 1989 or Total number of women in 65 through 74 age-group examined at least once from 1989 through 1991 was 96% of estimated population in this age-group. Percentages may be more than 100% for segments of population with very high turnover (for example, those in age-groups 0 through 4 and 15 through 24 years).
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7. Fig. 6
Age-specific prevalence of anemia, based on World Health Organization criteria, among Olmsted County men and women.
(Modified from Anía and associates.28)
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