• STODS: the Swedish Twin project Of Disability pension and Sickness absence

STODS was started in 2008, aiming to investigate risk factors and consequences of sickness absence and disability pensions. Special focus is on musculoskeletal and mental diagnoses, which accounts for approximately 70% o...

• Swedish Twin Registry

STR has been based at the Karolinska Institutet since 1959, first at the Institution of Hygien and thereafter at Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MEB. STR was originally created primarily to study the importance ...

• LifeGene

LifeGene is a prospective cohort study with longitudinal follow-up, the goal of which is to collect and make available data and samples from 250,000 Swedes. The cohort is a national cohort, with the 6 Swedish universitie...

• Respiratory Health In Northern Europe

The Respiratory Health in Northern Europe (RHINE) is a follow-up study of participants from seven Northern European centres who participated in European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS) stage I. The target pop...

• The cohort of 60-year-old men and women

The cohort of 60-year old men and women consists of every third man and woman residing in Stockholm county, who during one year (1997 01 07 - 1998 0630) reached the age of 60, and who subsequently was invited to a carefu...

• PARSIFAL

The international project PARSIFAL (Prevention of Allergy - Risk factors for Sensitization In children related to Farming and Anthroposophic life Style) Is directed from the Institute of environmental medicine at the Kar...

• The OLIN-studies

The Obstructive Lung Disease in Northern Sweden (OLIN) Studies, is a research program ongoing since 1985. It includes descriptive, analytic and interventional epidemiologic research on asthma, allergy, chronic bronchitis...

• The BAMSE project

Both heredity and environmental factors influence childrens' risk for developing respiratory and allergy related diseases, but how these factors influence the age of onset and the prognosis is little studied. It is also ...

• Intergene - Living habits and health

INTERGENE is a research program at the Sahlgrenska Academy, Universty of Gothenburg. The study is a collaboration between Department of community medicine and public health and Department of acute and cardiovascular medi...

• WOLF - Mental workload and indicators of chronic cardiovascular diseases

WOLF is a study that started in Stockholm in 1993. The acronym WOLF stands for Work-Lipids-Fibrinogen. The study is a collaboration between the former Working Environment Institute, the Institute of Environmental Health ...