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Self-experimentation chronomics for health surveillance and science; also transdisciplinary civic duty?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2004

Franz Halberg*
Affiliation:
Halberg Chronobiology Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN55455http://www.msi.umn.edu/~halberg/
Germaine Cornélissen*
Affiliation:
Halberg Chronobiology Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN55455http://www.msi.umn.edu/~halberg/
Barbara Schack
Affiliation:
Institute of Medical Statistics, Computer Science Documentation, Friedrich Schiller University, D-07740 Jena, Germany

Abstract

Self-surveillance and self-experimentation are of concern to everyone interested in finding out the factors that increase one's risk of stroke from <8% to nearly 100%; one also thereby contributes to transdisciplinary science.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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Notes

1. Dr. Barbara Schack died tragically on 24 July, 2003; memorial tribute in Neuroendocrinology Letters 2003, vol. 24, pp. 355–80. This note is also dedicated to her memory.

2. Each point made in this commentary is documented with figures based on data now published in Halberg et al. (2003).