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Singapore Population Health Studies

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Initiatives -
To discover how lifestyle factors, physiological factors, genetic factors and their interactions impact the development of common health conditions. In addition, we aim to monitor risk factors in the population and gain insight into determinants of health-related behaviours.
Start Year
2011
End Year
2021
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Investigators Contacts
  • MD. Professor Kee Seng Chia
    National University of Singapore

Design

Study design
Population cohort
Follow Up
Disease follow-up for all the cohorts is conducted by active follow-up every 5 years and linkage to national disease and death registries. A round of follow-up on all of these cohorts have begun in 2016 and will complete in 2021. This is the first follow-up wave of the entire SPHS.

Recruitment

Sources of Recruitment
  • Individuals

Number of participants

Number of participants
50,000
Number of participants with biosamples
Supplementary Information
adult Singaporeans and long-term residents from three major ethnic groups (Chinese, Malay and Indian)

Access

Availability of data and biosamples

Data
Biosamples
Other

Availability of access information

On the study website : https://blog.nus.edu.sg/sphs/

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