MONICA Risk, Genetics, Archiving and Monograph

MONICA Risk, Genetics, Archiving and Monograph (MORGAM) is a multinational collaborative study based on harmonization of data from population-based cohort studies. MORGAM includes cohorts examined in the standardized WHO MONICA risk factor surveys and other similar cohorts which have been followed up for cardiovascular diseases and death. It was established in the late 1990's to explore the relationships between the development of cardiovascular diseases and their classic and genetic risk factors. Since the mid 2000s, MORGAM has also measured biomarkers from frozen sera, partly as part of the BiomarCaRE Project. Most of the cohorts participating in MORGAM are from Europe. The baseline periods of the cohorts vary between 1982 and 2014, and the longest follow-up periods are about 30 years. Here is presented the MORGAM Network which includes the cohort studies participating in MORGAM. Most of these studies have collected much more data than have been harmonized in MORGAM. Studies described on the Maelstrom catalogue may differ from the ones on the MORGAM website. More details about MORGAM, the cohorts and the harmonized data are in the MORGAM website.

Overview

Acronym
MORGAM
Website
MORGAM Website
Investigators
Dr. Kari Kuulasmaa
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Contacts
Dr. Kari Kuulasmaa
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Relevant Papers

Evans A, Salomaa V, Kulathinal S, Asplund K, Cambien F, Ferrario M, Perola M, Peltonen L, Shields D, Tunstall-Pedoe H, Kuulasmaa K, MORGAM Project. MORGAM (an international pooling of cardiovascular cohorts). Int J Epidemiol. 2005;34(1):21-27. PUBMED 15561751

Zeller T, Hughes M, Tuovinen T, Schillert A, Conrads-Frank A, den Ruijter H, Schnabel RB, Kee F, Salomaa V, Siebert U, Thorand B, Ziegler A, Breek H, Pasterkamp G, Kuulasmaa K, Koenig W, Blankenberg S on behalf of the BiomarCaRE consortium. BiomarCaRE: rationale and design of the European BiomarCaRE Project including 300,000 participants from 13 European countries. Eur J Epidemiol. 2014;29:777-790. PUBMED 25238720

Harmonization Initiatives

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Areas of Information Collected

Socio-demographic and economic characteristics 12
Death 11
Lifestyle and behaviours 11
Physical measures and assessments 11
Birth, pregnancy and reproductive health history 4
Laboratory measures 11
Perception of health, quality of life, development and functional limitations 7
Cognition, personality and psychological measures and assessments 7
Diseases 12
Life events, life plans, beliefs and values 3
Symptoms and signs 8
Preschool, school and work life 4
Medication and supplements 9
Social environment and relationships 8
Non-pharmacological interventions 5
Physical environment 4
Health and community care services utilization 7
Administrative information 12

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