EpiHealth
The study consists of three parts:
1) Collection of data on lifestyle factors by a self-administered web-based questionnaire
2) Visit to a test center for collection of blood samples and recording of physiological parameters
3) The population is followed in registers for occurence of predefined emdpoints.
Repeated collection of data by means of web-based questionnaires and visits to test centra is planned for every 5th and 10th year, respectively, following the baseline investigation.
The study was approved by The Swedish Data Inspection Board (No. 307-2011).
Purpose:
The primary objectives of the EpiHealth study is to provide a resource to study interactions between genotypes and lifestyle factors in a large cohort (aim is 300,000 individuals) derived from the Swedish population in the age range 45-75 years regarding development of common degenerative disorders.
The study is planned to screen 300,000 individuals in Sweden with an age between 45 and 75 years.The data collection is ongoing and takes place via EpiHealth Test Centre in Uppsala and Malmö. In 2011 a pilot study was carried out, including the first 1000 subjects. In April 2015, 20,000 subjects were included.
Go to data source
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Documentation files
Documentation files
Citation and access
Citation and access
Creator/Principal investigator(s):
- Sölve Elmståhl - Lund University - Department of Clinical Sciences Medicine in Malmö. Division of Geriatric Medicine
- Lars Lind - Uppsala University - Department of Medical Sciences
- Maria Albin - Lunds University - Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- Marju Orho-Melander - Lund University - Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö, Division of Diabetes and cardiovascular disease - genetic epidemiology
- Anders Bjartell - Lund University - Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmo, Division of Urological Cancers
- Ingemar Petersson - Lund University - Department of Clinical Science, Lund, Department of Orthopaedics
- Paul Franks - Lund University - Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmo, Division of Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology
- Karin Källén - Lund University - Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Tornblad Institute
- Peter M Nilsson - Lund University - Faculty of Medicine
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Method and outcome
Method and outcome
Data collection - Web-based interview
Data collection - Web-based interview
Data collection - Physical measurements and tests
Data collection - Physical measurements and tests
Data collection - Other
Data collection - Other
Geographic coverage
Geographic coverage
Administrative information
Administrative information
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Topic and keywords
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Relations
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Publications
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