Collection SIMPLER - Swedish Infrastructure for Medical Population-Based Life-Course and Environmental Research

SND-ID: simpler.

Responsible research principal(s) for data included in the collection

Description

SIMPLER is an indvidual-based database and biobank primarily for epidemiological research. The database consists of two population-based cohorts, Swedish Mammography Cohort and Cohort of Swedish Menand its clinical subcohorts. All together they cover a total of approximately 110 000 persons born 1914–1952, from the counties of Uppsala, Västmanland and Örebro. Data collection from the participants has been made continuously since 1987, through regular mailings of questionnaires and surveys, as well as linking to register-based data. A biobank with DNA and other biological samples from a large number of the participants is available.

Data and samples from SIMPLER are used for research into areas such as cancer, neurological disease, circulatory disease, digestive system disease, kidney disease, diabetes and osteoporosis.

The SIMPLER consortium is coordinated by Uppsala University, with participation by Chalmers University of Technology, Karolinska Institutet and Örebro University.

Director is Karl Michaëlsson, Uppsala universitet.

Kind of collection

Research infrastructure

Research area

Medical and health sciences (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Clinical medicine (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Cancer and oncology (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Endocrinology and diabetes (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Cardiac and cardiovascular systems (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Orthopaedics (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Geriatrics (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

General practice (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Public health, global health, social medicine and epidemiology (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Nutrition and dietetics (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Keywords

Anthropometry, Cohort studies, Hearing, Life style, Follow-up studies, Heart failure, Longitudinal studies, Prospective studies, Exercise, Population surveillance, Survival, Tinnitus, Urination disorders, Arthritis, rheumatoid, Drug therapy, Risk factors, Myocardial infarction, Stroke, Diet, Alcohol drinking, Medical history taking, Work, Asthma, Fractures, bone, Thrombosis, Bronchitis, chronic, Crohn disease, Diabetes mellitus, Cause of death, Eczema, Obesity, Leisure activities, Intermittent claudication, Gallstones, Cataract, Glaucoma, Dermatitis, atopic, Health, Health status, Hypertension, Irritable bowel syndrome, Cholesterol, Dietary supplements, Pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive, Body height, Body weight, Angina pectoris, Arthralgia, Lung neoplasms, Drug utilization, Gastritis, Migraine disorders, Environment, Multiple sclerosis, Oral health, Depression, Kidney calculi, Kidney neoplasms, Parkinson disease, Prostatic neoplasms, Psoriasis, Registries, Rhinitis, allergic, seasonal, Smoking, Disease, Social support, Stress, psychological, Vision, ocular, Sleep, Colonic neoplasms, Colitis, ulcerative, Vitamins, Vertigo, Heredity, Hypersensitivity, Osteoporosis, Climacteric, Hormone replacement therapy, Women's health, Breast cyst, Breast neoplasms, Reproductive history, Pregnancy, Uterine neoplasms, Mammography, Menstruation, Environmental medicine, Contraceptive agents, Ovarian neoplasms, Swedish cohort consortium (scc), Near - national e-infrastructure for aging research, Cohorts.se Show less..

Geographic location

Sweden

Publications

Harris H, Håkansson N, Olofsson C, Julin B, Åkesson A, Wolk A. The Swedish Mammography Cohort and the Cohort of Swedish Men: Study design and characteristics of 2 population-based longitudinal cohorts. OA Epidemiology;1(2):16, 2013.
DOI: 10.13172/2053-079X-1-2-943

First published dataset: 2011-01-01
Last updated dataset: 2024-09-27