Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Olle Melander - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine
Peter M Nilsson - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine
Description
The steering group for Malmö Offspring Study:
Peter Nilsson, Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö, Internal Medicine Research Unit
Olle Melander, Lund University, Faculty of Medicine
Jan Nilsson, Lund university, Department of Clinical Sciences
Gunnar Engström, Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö
Margaretha Persson, Skåne University Hospital, Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö
Marju Orho-Melander, Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö, Division of Diabetes and cardiovascular disease - genetic epidemiology
In Malmö Offspring Study, children and grandchildren to participants from the previous population study Malmö Diet Cancer are invited to participate. The children are today in the ages 50-55 while the grandchildren are 20-30 years old. The objective is to examine 5,000-6,000 individuals by the year 2020.
There is a long tradition of larger population studies in Malmö. The main ones are Malmö Preventing Project and Malmö Diet Cancer which together has engaged over 50 000 unique participants. They have created a foundation for futu
Research principal
Data contains personal data
Yes
Code key exists
Yes
Ethics Review
Lund - Ref. 2012/594
Unit of analysis
Population
Children and grandchildren to participants from the previous population study Malmö Diet Cancer.
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Time period(s) investigated
2013 – ongoing
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden, Scania Province
Research area
HEALTH
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Medical and Health Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Nutrition and Dietetics
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Keywords
cancer, blood specimen collection, health surveys, diet surveys, dementia, life style, population surveillance, metabolism, diet, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, health status, hypertension, food habits, environment, registries, social conditions, heredity, lifestyle factors, cohorts.se, swedish diet cohort consortium (sdcc), swedish cohort consortium (scc), intergenerational study, sdcc
Data format / data structure
Numeric
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Olle Melander - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine
Peter M Nilsson - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine
Time period(s) investigated
2013 – ongoing
Response rate/participation rate
45%