• Project X-69

Health assessments were performed on subjects living in a city area. In total was 24 179 invited and 18 543 responded. Of the responders were 5 885 later examined. The results of the ECG, X-ray and medical examinations c...

• Uppsala Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

The primary cause to Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) is still unknown. The study is a prospective population-based case-control study which aims to find biomarkers for the cause and progression of the disease and consequ...

• Uppsala Family Study

The Uppsala Family Study was initiated in 2000-2001 when 602 families (mothers, fathers, two consecutive siblings age 5-14 years) living in Uppsala were examined with focus on anthropometry and blood pressure. Blood samp...

• Sleep and Health in Men (SHM)

Sleep and Health in Men (SHM) started in 1984 when participants were first investigated with postal questionnaires and a subgroup underwent full whole-night polysomnography. At that time this was the first population-bas...

• Respiratory Health In Northern Europe

The Respiratory Health in Northern Europe (RHINE) is a follow-up study of participants from seven Northern European centres who participated in European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS) stage I. The target pop...

• Sleep and HEalth in women (SHE)

Most previous research on obstructive sleep apnea has been performed in men and male patients are still overrepresented at sleep clinics. This study started in year 2000 with postal questionnaires to a non-selected femal...

• Uppsala Longitudinal Study of Adult Men (ULSAM)

Uppsala Longitudinal Study of Adult Men (ULSAM) is a unique, ongoing, longitudinal, epidemiologic study based on all available men, born between 1920 and 1924 and living in Uppsala County, Sweden. The aim of Uppsala Stud...

• The Cohort of Swedish Men (COSM) - The Cohort of Swedish Men, COSM 2008 health

The Cohort of Swedish Men is a large population-based cohort of over 45,000 men in the counties of Västmanland and Örebro. All men born 1918-1952 who were residing in Västmanland and Örebro County in 1997 received an inv...

• PIVUS - Prospective Investigation of the Vasculature in Uppsala Seniors

The PIVUS study started in 2001 with the primary aim to investigate the predicive power of different measurements of endothelial function and arterial compliance in a random sample of 1000 subjects aged 70 living in the ...

• The Swedish Mammography Cohort (SMC) 2008 health

The Swedish Mammography Cohort (SMC) is a large population-based cohort of over 60,000 women in the counties of Uppsala and Västmanland. All women born 1914-1948 who were residing in Västmanland and Uppsala County and in...