Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Sölve Elmståhl - Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences Medicine in Malmö. Division of Geriatric Medicine
Lars Lind - Uppsala University, Department of Medical Sciences
Maria Albin - Lunds University, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Marju Orho-Melander - Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö, Division of Diabetes and cardiovascular disease - genetic epidemiology
Anders Bjartell - Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmo, Division of Urological Cancers
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1) Collection of data on lifestyle factors by a self-administered web-based questionnaire
2) Visit to a test center for collection of blood samples and recording of physiological parameters
3) The population is followed in registers for occurence of predefined emdpoints.
Repeated collection of data by means of web-based questionnaires and visits to test centra is planned for every 5th and 10th year, respectively, following the baseline investigation.
The study was approved by The Swedish Data Inspection Board (No. 307-2011).
Purpose:
The primary objectives of the EpiHealth study is to provide a resource to study interactions between genotypes and lifestyle factors in a large cohort (aim is 300,000 individuals) derived from the Swedish population in the age range 45-75 years regarding development of common degenerative disorders.
Research principal
Responsible department/unit
Lund UniversityEthics Review
Uppsala - Ref. 2010/402
Unit of analysis
Population
Swedish women and men between the ages of 45 and 75 years old.
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Time period(s) investigated
2011 – ongoing
Biobank is connected to the study
Yes
Geographic spread
Geographic description: Initial two test centers: Malmö and Uppsala
Research area
HEALTH
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Medical and Health Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Keywords
quality of life, drinking behaviour, diseases, smoking, physical activities, pain, sleep, education, obesity, public health, medical history, reproduction (biological), passive smoking, blood pressure, epidemiologic studies, cohort studies, memory, population surveillance, socioeconomic factors, risk factors, diet, respiratory function tests, noise, surveys and questionnaires, cholesterol, dietary supplements, drug utilization, food habits, registries, tobacco, smokeless, fertility, housing conditions, working conditions, injuries, height (physiology), weight (physiology), work environment, cohorts.se, swedish cohort consortium (scc), epihealth, scania, epihealth_skåne
Lind L, Elmståhl S, Bergman E, Englund M, Lindberg E, Michaelsson K, Nilsson PM, Sundström J. EpiHealth: a large population-based cohort study for investigation of gene-lifestyle interactions in the pathogenesis of common diseases. European Journal of Epidemiology, 2013 Feb;28(2):189-97
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Description
The study is planned to screen 300,000 individuals in Sweden with an age between 45 and 75 years.The data collection is ongoing and takes place via EpiHealth Test Centre in Uppsala and Malmö. In 2011 a pilot study was carried out, including the first 1000 subjects. In April 2015, 20,000 subjects were included.Data format / data structure
Numeric
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Sölve Elmståhl - Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences Medicine in Malmö. Division of Geriatric Medicine
Lars Lind - Uppsala University, Department of Medical Sciences
Maria Albin - Lunds University, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Marju Orho-Melander - Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö, Division of Diabetes and cardiovascular disease - genetic epidemiology
Anders Bjartell - Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmo, Division of Urological Cancers
... Show more..Time period(s) investigated
2011 – ongoing
Number of individuals/objects
20000