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. 2017 Sep;32(9):741-749.
doi: 10.1007/s10654-017-0315-2. Epub 2017 Oct 6.

Chronic disease research in Europe and the need for integrated population cohorts

Paul Brennan  1 , Markus Perola  2 , Gert-Jan van Ommen  3   4 , Elio Riboli  5 ; European Cohort Consortium
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Chronic disease research in Europe and the need for integrated population cohorts

Paul Brennan et al. Eur J Epidemiol. 2017 Sep.
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Conflict of interest statement

Institutional grants from the European Union funded a small part of Professor Gert-Jan van Ommen’s salary through Leiden University Medical Center.

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Life expectancy at birth, EU-28, 2002–2014. Eurostat Statistics Explained [2]
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Prospective European cohorts with at least 10,000 participants and including baseline collection of biological samples. *Cohort acronyms by country: Estonia: EGCUT = Estonian Genome Centre, University of Tartu; Germany: KORA = KOoperative gesundheitsforschung in der Region Augsburg, NAKO = German national cohort; Italy: CUORE = Cohort of Italian Adult Women and Men, M-s study = Moli-sani Study, CHRIS = Cooperative Health Research in South Tyrol Study; Netherlands: NLCS = Netherlands Cohort Study; Norway: MoBa = Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study, HUNT = Nord-Trøndelag Health Study; Sweden: NSHDS = Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study, COSM/SMC = Cohort of Swedish men/Swedish Mammography Cohort; Turkey: BHS = Balcova Heart Study; United Kingdom: BGS = Breakthrough Generations, UKHLS = The UK Household Longitudinal Study. **EPIC (The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition) includes the following centres: EPIC-Denmark (56 K), EPIC-France (20 K), EPIC-Germany (Potsdam & Heidelberg) (50 K), EPIC-Greece (28 K), EPIC-Italy (47 K), EPIC-Netherlands (36 K), EPIC-Norway (9 K), EPIC-Spain (39 K), EPIC-Sweden (53 K), and EPIC-United Kingdom (43 K)
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