• Sleep and Health in Men (SHM)

Sleep and Health in Men (SHM) started in 1984 when participants were first investigated with postal questionnaires and a subgroup underwent full whole-night polysomnography. At that time this was the first population-bas...

• Uppsala Family Study

The Uppsala Family Study was initiated in 2000-2001 when 602 families (mothers, fathers, two consecutive siblings age 5-14 years) living in Uppsala were examined with focus on anthropometry and blood pressure. Blood samp...

• BIG3

BIG3 is a Scanian research project in which the name BIG3 is aiming at three major diseases: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cardiovascular diseases and lung cancer. The overall goal of BIG3 is to understan...

• The ADONIX study

"ADONIX" is an acronyme for "Adult-onset asthma and nitric oxide" and is the collective name for the population study conducted by the Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Gothenburg. 6685...

• SATSA - Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging

The Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging (SATSA) provides a unique opportunity to understand individual differences in aging. The twin design and the inclusion of twins reared apart makes it possible to study the importa...

• Malmö Diet Cancer

The MDC was started in the early 1990s as a screening survey in the middle-aged population of Malmö, the third largest city of Sweden. 28000 subjects living in Malmö were during 1991-1996 invited by letter and through p...

• The Swedish Mammography Cohort, SMC

The Swedish Mammography Cohort (SMC) is a large population-based cohort of over 60,000 women in the counties of Uppsala and Västmanland which is performed by the National Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska I...