• 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...

• Sleep and HEalth in women (SHE)

Most previous research on obstructive sleep apnea has been performed in men and male patients are still overrepresented at sleep clinics. This study started in year 2000 with postal questionnaires to a non-selected femal...

• DIWA - Diabetes and Impaired glucose tolerance in Women and Atherosclerosis development study

All 64-year old women in the county of Gothenburg were invited to a screening examination including an OGTT. Glucose tolerance was defined for each participant according to the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria. P...

• Women's Health in the Lund Area (WHILA)

The Women's Health in the Lund Area (WHILA) study invited all women (n = 10,766) living in the Lund area of Southern Sweden by 1995, who were born between 1935 and 1945. The health screening program included a postal val...

• Malmö Preventive Project

The MPP was started in the early 70's as a screening survey in the middle-aged population of Malmö, the third largest city of Sweden. Subjects born in Malmö and residents of the city were invited for a clinical examinati...

• The Gothenburg BEDA study

The BEDA study is a study of cardiovascular disease in women, administered by the Section for Preventive Cardiology, University of Gothenburg. The background is that coronary heart disease and diabetes are important and ...

• The MONICA survey in Gothenburg

The MONICA study is a WHO supported international multicenter study of risk factors for cardiovascular disease (Multinational MONItoring of trends and determinants in CArdiovascular disease), involving 38 populations in...