Swedish Women's Lifestyle and Health Cohort Study
The objective of the Swedish Women's Lifestyle and Health Cohort Study (SWLH) was to create a large prospective cohort designed specifically to investigate the association between lifestyle factors (exogenous hormones and dietary habits) and cancer and cardiovascular diseases in young women.
Overview
- Acronym
- SWLH
- Website
- SWLH
- Investigators
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- Contacts
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General Design
- Study design
- Cohort
- Start - End Year
- 1991 -
- General Information on Follow Up (profile, frequency)
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After the baseline, participants were followed-up once in 2003.
- Recruitment Target
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- Individuals
- Number of Participants
- 49,258
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Marker Paper
Roswall N, Sandin S, Adami HO, Weiderpass E. 2015. Cohort Profile: The Swedish Women's Lifestyle and Health cohort. Int J Epidemiol. doi:10.1093/ije/dyv089
PUBMED 26066328Timeline
Population
SWLH population
The participants are women, aged 29 to 49 years at the time of recruitment (born between 1943 and 1962), and residing in the Uppsala Health Care Region.
Selection Criteria
- Gender
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Women only
- Minimum age
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29
- Maximum age
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49
- Countries
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- Sweden
- Territory
- Uppsala Health Care region
Sources of Recruitment
- General Population
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- Selected sample
- Supplementary Information
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Participants were randomly selected from the Swedish Population Registry at Statistics Sweden based on their unique, 10-digit national registration number.
Sample Size
- Number of Participants
- 49,258
- Supplementary Information about selection criteria
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Baseline: 49 258 participants
Follow-up: 34 402 participants
Data Collection Events
| # | Name | Data sources | Data sources - Biosamples | Start | End |
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| 0 | SWLH - Baseline |
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1991 | 1992 | |
| 1 | SWLH - Registries |
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1991 | 2016 | |
| 2 | SWLH - Follow-up |
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2003 | 2003 |
Participating Studies
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Harmonization Initiatives Included
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Datasets
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Areas of Information Collected
- Socio-demographic and economic characteristics
- Death
- Lifestyle and behaviours
- Physical measures and assessments
- Birth, pregnancy and reproductive health history
- Laboratory measures
- Perception of health, quality of life, development and functional limitations
- Cognition, personality and psychological measures and assessments
- Diseases
- Life events, life plans, beliefs and values
- Symptoms and signs
- Preschool, school and work life
- Medication and supplements
- Social environment and relationships
- Non-pharmacological interventions
- Physical environment
- Health and community care services utilization
- Administrative information
Variables Content Summary
Areas of Information Collected
No Areas of Information Collected
No Scales Collected
Areas of Information Collected per per Population and Data Collection Event
No Areas of Information Collected
No Scales Collected
Networks
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