Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Olle Melander - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine
Peter M Nilsson - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine
Jonas Manjer - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine
Bo Hedblad - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine
Description
Purpose:
1. To screen for dietary habits in order to predict incident cancers in the general population
2. To screen for cardiovascular risk factors and early atherosclerosis in a sub-sample.
Research principal
Responsible department/unit
Faculty of Medicine
Data contains personal data
No
Unit of analysis
Population
Individuals at age 45-73 at first screening, living in Malmö, Sweden.
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Time period(s) investigated
1991 – ongoing
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden
Lowest geographic unit
Municipality
Research area
HEALTH
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Medical and Health Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Cancer and Oncology, Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems, Nutrition and Dietetics
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Keywords
anthropometry, blood specimen collection, epidemiologic studies, body weights and measures, diet surveys, longitudinal studies, prospective studies, exercise, population surveillance, socioeconomic factors, emotions, arthritis, rheumatoid, risk factors, mortality, myocardial infarction, neoplasms, stroke, diet, alcohol drinking, medical history taking, arteriosclerosis, asthma, diabetes mellitus, dna, cause of death, public health, genetic markers, cardiovascular diseases, health status, hypertension, inflammatory bowel diseases, body weight, angina pectoris, drug utilization, stomach ulcer, food habits, menstruation, kidney calculi, contraceptives, oral, registries, smoking, mass screening, pain, social support, goiter, sleep, education, occupations, heredity, serum, erythrocytes, abnormal, granulocytes, leukocytes, mononuclear, portion-size, epihealth_skåne, cohorts.se, epihealth, scania, dietary interview, 7-day menu book, dietary questionnaire, swedish diet cohort consortium (sdcc), swedish cohort consortium (scc), sdcc
Manjer J, Carlsson S, Elmståhl S, Gullberg B, Janzon L, Lindström M, Mattisson I, Berglund G. The Malmö Diet and Cancer Study: representativity, cancer incidence and mortality in participants and non-participants. Eur J Cancer Prev 2001;10:489-99.
Manjer J, Elmståhl S, Janzon L, Berglund G. Invitation to a population-based cohort study: differences between subjects recruited using various strategies. Scand J Public Health 2002;30:103-12.
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Data format / data structure
Numeric
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Olle Melander - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine
Peter M Nilsson - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine
Jonas Manjer - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine
Bo Hedblad - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine
Number of individuals/objects
28098
Response rate/participation rate
41%