Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study
Overview
- Acronym
- CaMos
- Website
- CaMos
- Investigators
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- Contacts
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General Design
- Study design
- Cohort
- Start - End Year
- 1995 - 2018
- General Information on Follow Up (profile, frequency)
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Participants were followed annually by postal questionnaire to obtain medication and fracture history. Details regarding reported fractures were obtained through a telephone interview. The data collection at Year 3 (participants aged 40-60 years), Year 5 (all participants), Year 10 (all participants) and Year 16 (women aged 60-75 years) follow-ups included an extensive interviewer-administered questionnaire and a clinical assessment (bone mineral density, X-rays, ultrasounds, height and weight measurements). Participants not selected to do a full interview at Year 3 and 16 follow-ups, received a short postal follow-up questionnaire on fractures.
- Recruitment Target
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- Individuals
- Number of Participants
- 10,424
- Number of Participants with Biological Samples
- No Limit
- Supplementary information about number of participants
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6539 women and 2884 men aged 25 years and older; 527 young women and 474 young men aged 16-24 years.
- Supplementary Information
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The Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CaMos) is an ongoing population-based longitudinal study of community-dwelling adults (ages 25 years and older) recruited from 1995 to 1997. Between 2004 and 2006, a cohort of young women and men 16-24 years old was also recruited. Both cohorts have been drawn from a random population-based sample of non-institutionalized men and women living within 50 km of one of nine Canadian cities (St John’s, Halifax, Quebec City, Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton, Saskatoon, Calgary and Vancouver), referred to as centres, encompassing roughly 40% of the Canadian population. Households were randomly selected from residential phone numbers; participants were then selected from households by an age-stratified protocol. In the adult cohort (ages 25 years and older), this protocol weighted to older adults with two thirds women.
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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| Possible Access to Biosamples | |
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All CaMos data are accessible to external researchers as long as they collaborate with one of the CaMos investigators.
Marker Paper
Kreiger N, Tenenhouse A, Joseph L, Mackenzie T, Poliquin S, Brown JP, Prior JC, Rittmaster RS. (1999) The Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CaMos): Background, rationale, methods. Can J Aging 18(3):376-87
Timeline
Populations
The adult cohort includes non-institutionalized men and women aged 25 years or older living within 50 km of one of nine Canadian cities.
Selection Criteria
- Minimum age
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25
- Countries
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- Canada
- Canadian Provinces
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- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Territory
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Living within 50 km of one of nine Canadian cities (St John’s, Halifax, Quebec City, Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton, Saskatoon, Calgary and Vancouver)
- Other Criteria
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Random selection of non-institutionalized adults
Sources of Recruitment
- General Population
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- Selected sample
Sample Size
- Number of Participants
- 9,423
- Supplementary information about number of participants
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6539 women and 2884 men
Data Collection Events
| # | Name | Data sources | Data sources - Biosamples | Start | End |
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| 0 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Baseline |
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1995 (July) | 1997 (September) |
| 1 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 1 Follow-up |
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1996 (August) | 1998 (December) | |
| 2 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 2 Follow-up |
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1997 (July) | 2000 (February) | |
| 3 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 3 Follow-up |
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1998 (July) | 2001 (January) | |
| 4 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 4 Follow-up |
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1999 (January) | 2001 (December) | |
| 5 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 5 Follow-up |
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2001 (December) | 2004 (January) |
| 6 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 6 Follow-up |
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2002 (August) | 2004 (December) | |
| 7 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 7 Follow-up |
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2003 (November) | 2006 (February) | |
| 8 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 8 Follow-up |
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2004 (October) | 2007 (January) | |
| 9 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 9 Follow-up |
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2006 (September) | 2009 (January) | |
| 10 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 10 Follow-up |
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2007 (July) | 2010 (January) |
| 11 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 11 Follow-up |
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2008 (September) | 2011 (April) | |
| 12 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 12 Follow-up |
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2009 (August) | 2011 (November) | |
| 13 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 13 Follow-up |
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2011 (March) | 2012 (September) | |
| 14 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 14 Follow-up |
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2012 (January) | 2013 (December) | |
| 15 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 15 Follow-up |
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2013 (January) | 2013 (December) | |
| 16 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 16 Follow-up |
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2014 (January) | 2014 (December) |
| 17 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 17 Follow-up |
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2015 (January) | 2015 (December) | |
| 18 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 18 Follow-up |
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2016 (January) | 2016 (December) | |
| 19 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 19 Follow-up |
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2017 (January) | 2017 (December) | |
| 20 | CaMos - Adult Cohort - Year 20 Follow-up |
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2018 (January) | 2018 (December) |
The youth cohort includes young men and women aged 16-24 years living within 50 km of one of nine Canadian cities. The same recruitment method as with the adult cohort was used. However, there were no oversampling.
Selection Criteria
- Minimum age
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16
- Maximum age
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24
- Countries
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- Canada
- Canadian Provinces
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- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Territory
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Living within 50 km of one of nine Canadian cities (St John’s, Halifax, Quebec City, Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton, Saskatoon, Calgary and Vancouver)
- Other Criteria
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Random selection through phone directory
Sources of Recruitment
- General Population
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- Selected sample
Sample Size
- Number of Participants
- 1,001
- Supplementary information about number of participants
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527 women and 474 men
Data Collection Events
| # | Name | Data sources | Data sources - Biosamples | Start | End |
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| 0 | CaMos - Youth Cohort - Baseline |
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2004 (July) | 2006 (June) |
| 1 | CaMos - Youth Cohort - Year 1 Follow-up |
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2005 (September) | 2008 (February) |
| 2 | CaMos - Youth Cohort - Year 2 Follow-up |
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2006 (August) | 2008 (December) |
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
Areas of Information Collected per per Population and Data Collection Event
Networks
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