Hamburg City Health Study
Initiatives
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The primary objectives of the Hamburg City Health Study are to investigate:
* the causes for the development of functional health impairments and major chronic diseases;
* the prognostic factors for surviving chronic diseases;
* identifcation of factors supporting life in survivorship of major chronic diseases.
*Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.*
- Start Year
- 2016
- Funding
- Innovative medicine initiative (IMI) under Grant No. 116074, by the Fondation Leducq under Grant Number 16 CVD 03, by the euCanSHare Grant Agreement No. 825903-euCanSHare H2020 and the DFG under project Grant TH1106/5-1; AA93/2-1.
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- From May 08, 2015 until January, 31 2016 1800 volunteers in the age group 18–85 were recruited by a commercial campaign in the leading newspaper from Hamburg and took part to validate the invitation process and train the study nurses in the examination procedures. Moreover, the manageability of the questionnaires was tested. This pilot study led to minor changes in these aspects. The first participant was enrolled on February 08, 2016 in the main study and the last participant is expected to be enrolled on November 30, 2022. The end of the first personal Follow-Up is planned 6 years later in 2028.
Marker Paper
Jagodzinski, A., Johansen, C., Koch-Gromus, U. et al. (2019). Rationale and Design of the Hamburg City Health Study, European Journal of Epidemiology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-019-00577-4
PUBMED 31705407
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 45,000
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Aged 45-74 years old
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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