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The Survey Europe on Nutrition in the Elderly: a Concerted Action Study
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The Survey Europe on Nutrition in the Elderly: a Concerted Action Study

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Start Year
1988
End Year
1999
Funding
FREJA Programme andthe Danish Research Agency
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Investigators Contacts
  • Dr. Iben Kynde
    nstitute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital

Design

Study design
Population cohort
Follow Up
Two follow-up studies in 1993 and 1999

Marker Paper

Kynde I, Bjørnsbo KS, Tetens I, Heitmann BL. Dietary carbohydrates and change in physical performance of elderly Europeans: Survey in Europe on Nutrition and the Elderly, a Concerted Action (SENECA) 1993 and 1999. Public Health Nutr. 2010 Aug;13(8):1186-90. doi: 10.1017/S1368980009991601. Epub 2009 Oct 7.

PUBMED 19807934

Recruitment

Sources of Recruitment
  • Individuals

Number of participants

Number of participants
2,039
Number of participants with biosamples
Supplementary Information
The participants were 70-75 years old at baseline.

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Availability of data and biosamples

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