Epihealth cohort study

Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö

Infrastructure

    Infrastructure Details

    Acronym

    Epihealth

    Name of national/international infrastructure this infrastructure belongs to

    Part of the planned Cohorts.se infrastructure.

    Description

    The on-going study Epihealth comprises about 25 000 men and women 45 to 75 yrs, randomly invited from Malmö and Uppsala during 2010 to 2016 and examined at one occassion.
    Investigation covers a questionnaire on lifestyle, previous diseases, medication, QoL, mood, ADL, sociodemographics, occupation, asthma and allergy and womens health. Assessment include spirometry, body composition, blood pressure, thumb ECG, trail-making test and biobanking. Retrieval of registry data include inhospital care, outpatient care, mortality registry, prescription, sick-leave, Socialstyrelsens quality control registries.

    Digital and physical collections

    Data are saved in an Oracle database and data can be exported in e.g. SPSS, SAS or other format.
    Format include information on data variable, data labelling.

    Services provided

    KI Biobank will help with details regarding transfer of data and/or biosamples. However, the applicant will be charged for the work hours needed to deliver data and/or biosamples directly from KI Biobank.

    Management of the infrastructure

    Principal investigator: Sölve Elmståhl (Malmö) and Lars Lind (Uppsala).

    Management of database and infrastructure and data application:
    EpiHealth Data access Committee

    UKÄ subject classification

    • Medical and Health Sciences

    Type of infrastructure

    • Digital collections

    Contact information

    NameSölve Elmståhl
    LinksWebsite, Booking/Management

    Hierarchy

    Lund University Population Research Platform
    Epihealth cohort study

    Terms of loan/booking

    Available for loan - internal and external

    To use data from the Epihealth population study and information on application form,
    Write a research proposal and mail to [email protected]. This form should be accompanied by two Excel files specifying the requested data. The forms are retrieved from https://www.epihealth.se/For-scientists/Research-Application-/ One for the measurements performed at the test center and one regarding the questionnaire.
    If approved by the EpiHealth Data access Committee, then apply for ethical approval in your regional EPN
    After the advertisement on the particular study has been on our website for one month, the research proposal and the EPN approval, should be sent by you to the data administrators at KI Biobank via [email protected] together with the two Excel files specifying the requested data.
    • 1 Organisation of workshop/ seminar/ course