Malmö Diet Cancer
SND-ID: ext0012-1.
Is part of collection at SND: Swedish Diet Cohort Consortium (SDCC), Scania Metadatabase for Epidemiology (SME), Swedish Cohort Consortium (Cohorts.se)
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Olle Melander - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine
Peter M Nilsson - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine
Jonas Manjer - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine
Bo Hedblad - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine
Research principal
Lund University - Faculty of Medicine
Description
Purpose:
1. To screen for dietary habits in order to predict incident cancers in the general population
2. To screen for cardiovascular risk factors and early atherosclerosis in a sub-sample.
Data contains personal data
No
Unit of analysis
Population
Individuals at age 45-73 at first screening, living in Malmö, Sweden.
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Time period(s) investigated
1991 – 2012
Number of individuals/objects
28098
Response rate/participation rate
41%
Data format / data structure
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden
Lowest geographic unit
Municipality
Responsible department/unit
Faculty of Medicine
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)
Cardiac and cardiovascular systems (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Nutrition and dietetics (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Health (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Keywords
Anthropometry, Blood specimen collection, Epidemiologic studies, Body weights and measures, Diet surveys, Longitudinal studies, Prospective studies, Exercise, Population surveillance, Socioeconomic factors, Emotions, Arthritis, rheumatoid, Risk factors, Mortality, Myocardial infarction, Neoplasms, Stroke, Diet, Alcohol drinking, Medical history taking, Arteriosclerosis, Asthma, Diabetes mellitus, Dna, Cause of death, Public health, Genetic markers, Cardiovascular diseases, Health status, Hypertension, Inflammatory bowel diseases, Body weight, Angina pectoris, Drug utilization, Stomach ulcer, Menstruation, Kidney calculi, Contraceptives, oral, Registries, Smoking, Mass screening, Pain, Social support, Goiter, Sleep, Education, Occupations, Heredity, Serum, Erythrocytes, abnormal, Feeding behavior, Granulocytes, Leukocytes, mononuclear, Scania, Epihealth, Epihealth_skåne, Swedish cohort consortium (scc), Swedish diet cohort consortium (sdcc), Sdcc, Dietary questionnaire, 7-day menu book, Dietary interview, Portion-size, Cohorts.se
Manjer J, Elmståhl S, Janzon L, Berglund G. Invitation to a population-based cohort study: differences between subjects recruited using various strategies. Scand J Public Health 2002;30:103-12.
Manjer J, Carlsson S, Elmståhl S, Gullberg B, Janzon L, Lindström M, Mattisson I, Berglund G. The Malmö Diet and Cancer Study: representativity, cancer incidence and mortality in participants and non-participants. Eur J Cancer Prev 2001;10:489-99.
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