The Swedish Mammography Cohort – part of SIMPLER
Initiatives
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To assess relationships between a number of modifiable factors (diet, vitamin supplement use, physical activity, smoking, alcohol, body weight, other anthropometric measures etc.) and the occurrence of several major chronic diseases.
- Start Year
- 1987
- End Year
- 2009
- Funding
- his study was supported by grants from the Swedish Cancer Foundation, the Swedish Research Council/Longitudinal Studies, and Va ̈ stman-land County Research Fund Against Cancer.
- Supplementary Information
- https://snd.gu.se/en/catalogue/study/ext0018 ; https://www.simpler4health.se/researchers/cohorts/
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- After baseline participants were followed-up three times for updated exposure information, in 1997, 2008 and 2009
Marker Paper
Wolk A, Larsson SC, Johansson JE, Ekman P. Long-term fatty fish consumption and renal cell carcinoma incidence in women. JAMA. 2006 Sep 20;296(11):1371-6. doi: 10.1001/jama.296.11.1371.
PUBMED 16985229
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 61,433
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Women in the countries of Uppsala and Västmanland( minimum age: 39; maximum age: 76)
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
On the study website : https://ki.se/en/imm/the-swedish-mammography-co...