Swiss Ageing Citizen Reference

The Swiss Ageing Citizen Reference (SACR) is a driver project from the Swiss Personalized Health Network that aims: * To harmonize and apply data and biomaterial from existing Swiss citizen cohorts to build the well-embedded public health pillar of personalized health in Switzerland. * To grant personalized health researchers responsible access to prospectively obtained information on health and health risks, to geocoded residential and work address history, and to archived biomaterial for testing the clinical and public health utility of candidate biomarkers and exposome features in predicting aging-related intermediate biomarkers (DNA methylation); MRI derived brain features), and subsequently aging-related (multi-) morbidities.

Overview

Acronym
SACR
Website
SACR
Investigators
Prof. Nicole Probst-Hensch
Swiss Tropical And Public Health Institute
Prof. Murielle Bochud
Unisanté, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne
Prof. Peter Vollenweider
Lausanne University Hospital – CHUV and University of Lausanne
Prof. Bogdan Draganski
Lausanne university
Contacts
Prof. Nicole Probst-Hensch
Swiss Tropical And Public Health Institute
Dr. Medea Imboden
Swiss Tropical And Public Health Institute
Dr. Ayoung Jeong
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

General Design

Study design
Cohort
Start - End Year
2020 - 2023
General Information on Follow Up (profile, frequency)
Data collection was conducted between 2020 and 2023.
Recruitment Target
  • Individuals
Number of Participants
902
Number of Participants with Biological Samples
891
Supplementary information about number of participants
* Individuals recruited from the SAPALDIA cohort: 415 participants * Individuals recruited from the PsyCoLaus|CoLaus cohort: 360 participants * Individuals recruited from the SKIPOGH cohort: 127 participants

Access

Availability of data and biosamples

Possible Access to Data
Possible Access to Biosamples
Other

Access: https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/sacr

Marker Papers

Jeong A, Bochud M, Cattin P, et al. SPHN - The Swiss Aging Citizen Reference (SACR). Stud Health Technol Inform. 2020 Jun 16;270:1168-1169. doi: 10.3233/SHTI200347.

PUBMED 32570565

Supplementary Information

This study puts together three population-based cohorts: * SAPALDIA
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/topics/non-communicable-diseases/human-biomonitoring/sapaldia/
* CoLaus|PsyCoLaus
http://www.colaus-psycolaus.ch/professionals/colaus/
http://www.colaus-psycolaus.ch/professionals/psycolaus/
* SKIPOGH
http://www.unisante.ch/fr/formation-recherche/recherche/projets-etudes/swiss-kidney-project-genes-hypertension-skipogh
https://www.maelstrom-research.org/study/skipogh

Timeline

Population

SACR population
The population is composed of participants who were recruited within three existing population-based cohorts (SAPALDIA, CoLaus/PsyCoLaus, and SKIPOGH). The three original cohorts were composed of individuals from the general population in Switzerland living in Basel, Geneva, Lugano, Payerne, Wald, Aarau, Montana, and Davos for the SAPALDIA cohort; living in the City of Lausanne for the CoLaus/PsyCoLaus cohort; and living in Lausanne, Geneva, and Bern for the SKIPOGH cohort.

Selection Criteria

Minimum age
18
Maximum age
90
Countries
  • Switzerland
Territory
Lausanne, Basel, Aarau, Davos, Payerne, Montana, Wald, Lugano, Geneva, Bern

Sources of Recruitment

Participants from Existing Studies
  • PsyCoLaus|CoLaus, SAPALDIA, SKIPOGH

Sample Size

Number of Participants
902
Number of Participants with Biological Samples
891

Data Collection Events

# Name Data sources Data sources - Biosamples Start End
0 SACR - Data collection
  • Questionnaires
  • Cognitive measures
  • Physical measures
  • Biosamples
  • Other : Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), DNA methylomne
  • Blood
2020 2023

Participating Studies

Acronym Name Study design Countries

Harmonization Initiatives Included

Acronym Name

Datasets

Name Data Collection Events Variables

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

Acronym Name Harmonization Initiatives Individual Studies
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