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Women's Health in the Lund Area (WHILA)

SND-ID: EXT 0092

This study is part of the collection Scania Metadatabase for Epidemiology (SME)

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Jan Sundquist - Region Skåne, Center for Primary Health Care Research

Kristina Sundquist - Region Skåne, Center for Primary Health Care Research

Peter M Nilsson - Skåne University Hospital, Department of Medical Imaging and Physiology

Description

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 validated questionnaire concerning medical history, drug treatment, family history of diabetes and hypertension, menopausal status, smoking and alcohol habits, education, household, and working status, physical activity, quality of life as well as subjective physical and mental symptoms.

The screening consisted of a routine physical examination with standardized blood pressure measurements, bone densitometry and an extended laboratory examination. A link with the mammography registry was established. 10766 women were invited to the study and the total cohort consists of 6917 (response rate 64.2%).

Purpose:

The aim was to study the health profile in a population based cohort of middle-aged women in a geographically well-defined area in relation to metabolic factors, bone density, quality of life, lifestyle, social conditions and various subjective symptoms.
Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Region Skåne

Responsible department/unit

Center for Primary Health Care Research

Protection and ethical review

Ethics Review

Lund - Ref. LU 174-95

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Population

All women born between 1935-12-02 and 1945-12-01 residents in the municipality of Lund per 1995-12-01.

Time Method

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Time period(s) investigated

1995-12-01 – 2000-02-03

Biobank is connected to the study

Yes

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic description: Lund Municipality

Topic and keywords

Research area

HEALTH (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Endocrinology and Diabetes, Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems, Orthopaedics, Urology and Nephrology, Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine, General Practice, Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

quality of life, living conditions, drinking behaviour, smoking, physical activities, education, cardiovascular diseases, public health, medical history, epidemiologic studies, cohort studies, health surveys, diet surveys, population surveillance, osteoporosis, socioeconomic factors, urinary incontinence, glucose tolerance test, hormone replacement therapy, menopause, women's health, women, diet, surveys and questionnaires, epidemiology, glucose, drug utilization, mass screening, tobacco, working conditions, biological specimen banks, diabetes, epihealth_skåne, epihealth, scania

Publications

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Samsioe G, Lidfeldt J, Nerbrand C, Nilsson P. The women's health in the Lund area (WHILA) study--an overview. Maturitas. 2010 Jan;65(1):37-45.
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Moberg L, Nilsson PM, Samsioe G, Borgfeldt C. Low androstenedione/sex hormone binding globulin ratio increases fracture risk in postmenopausal women. The Women's Health in the Lund Area study. Maturitas. 2013 Jul;75(3):270-5
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Dataset
The Women´s Health In the Lund Area - initial questionnaire

Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Jan Sundquist - Region Skåne, Center for Primary Health Care Research

Kristina Sundquist - Region Skåne, Center for Primary Health Care Research

Peter M Nilsson - Skåne University Hospital, Department of Medical Imaging and Physiology

Time period(s) investigated

1995-12-01 – 2000-02-03

Data collection 1

  • Mode of collection: Face-to-face interview
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 1995-12-01–2000-03-03
  • Source of the data: Population group, Biological samples

Data collection 2

  • Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire: paper
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 1995-12-01–2000-02-03
  • Source of the data: Population group, Biological samples

Data collection 3

  • Mode of collection: Physical measurements and tests
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 1995-12-01–2000-02-03
  • Source of the data: Population group, Biological samples

Number of individuals/objects

6917

Response rate/participation rate

64.2%

Contact for questions about the data

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Scania Metadatabase for Epidemiology (SME)

Published: 2014-02-27
Last updated: 2018-03-12