• PROTECT trial - Individual interviews with participants in the intervention group

The data material contains transcripts of twelve individual interviews with participants who have participated in a person-centred e-health intervention containing telephone support and access to a digital platform. The ...

• Matrix Metalloproteinases in COPD and atherosclerosis with emphasis on the effects of smoking

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMP´s) are known biomarkers of atherosclerosis. MMP´s are also involved in the pathophysiological processes underlying chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Cigarette smoking plays an ...

• Respiratory Diseases

The prevalence of various respiratory diseases are increasing in Scandinavia and also in other parts of the world. In this study, an extensive questionnaire on issues related to respiratory diseases, was sent out to resi...

• SCAPIS - Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study

SCAPIS stands for Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study and is a unique research project within the field of cardiac, vascular and pulmonary disease. The risk-factor pattern for cardiovascular diseases has changed durin...

• The Cohort of Swedish Men, COSM

COSM is a population based cohort of men borned 1918-1952 (45-79 years old) who lived in the counties of Västmanland and Örebro in 1997. 48,860 of these 100,303 men (48.7%) responded and filled in a questionnaire with q...

• 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...

• 50-year-olds in Gothenburg

Starting in 1963 and with 10-year intervals, five population samples of men aged 50 and living in the city of Gothenborg, Sweden, were examined with respect to cardiovascular risk factors. In 1963, 973 men were invited....

• 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...

• 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...