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HELIUS
Healthy Life in an Urban Setting...
Description
The HELIUS study is a prospective cohort study on health and healthcare among an urban multi-ethnic population. The aim of the HELIUS study is to gain insight in the biological, psychological and social causes of the unequal burden of disease across ...
General Design
- Type
- Biobank, Cohort study
- Cohort type
- Population cohort
- Data collection type
- Prospective
- Design
- Longitudinal
- Start/End data collection
- 2010 (ongoing)
- Design papers
Population
- Countries
- Netherlands (the)
- Regions
- Amsterdam
- Number of participants
- 24781
- Population age groups
- Adult (18+ years)
- Inclusion criteria
- Age group inclusion criterion
- Ethnicity inclusion criterion
Organisations
Lead organisations
- Amsterdam University Medical CentersNetherlands (the)https://www.amsterdamumc.org
- Amsterdam University Medical CentersNetherlands (the)https://www.amsterdamumc.org
Additional organisations
- GGD Amsterdam
Available Data & Samples
Data categories
- Biological samples
- Survey data
- National registries
- Physiological/Biochemical measurements
- Omics
- Genomics
- Transcriptomics
- Proteomics
- Metabolomics
Sample categories
- Blood
- Blood (whole)
- Blood Buffy Coat
- Fetal blood (Cord blood)
- Plasma
- Serum
- Fluids and Secretions
- Feces
- Mouth swabs
- Nasal swabs
- Urine
- 24h urine
- Urine, first morning
- Urine, random
- Urine, timed
Areas of information
- Socio-demographic and economic characteristics
- Age/birthdate
- Sex/gender
- Twin
- Marital/partner status
- Family and household structure
- Education
- Residence
- Birthplace
- Citizenship and immigrant status
- Ethnicity, race and religion
- Language
- Labour force and retirement
- Income, possessions, and benefits
- Other socio-demographic and economic characteristics
- Lifestyle and behaviours
- Tobacco
- Alcohol
- Drugs
- Nutrition
- Breastfeeding
- Physical activity
- Transportation
- Personal hygiene
- Sleep
- Sexual behaviours and orientation
- Leisure activities
- Technological devices
- Misbehaviour and criminality
- Other and unspecified lifestyle information
- Birth, pregnancy and reproductive health history
- Puberty, menstruation, menopause and andropause
- Contraception
- Pregnancy, delivery and birth
- Fertility and sexual health
- Other reproductive health-related information
- Perception of health, quality of life, development and functional limitations
- Perception of health
- Quality of life
- Life course development
- Functional limitations
- Use of assistive devices
- Other perception of health, quality of life and functional limitation-related information
- Symptoms and signs
- Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems (R00-R09)
- Symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen (R10-R19)
- Symptoms and signs involving the skin and subcutaneous tissue (R20-R23)
- Symptoms and signs involving nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R25-R29)
- Symptoms and signs involving the urinary system (R30-R39)
- Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behaviour (R40-R46)
- Symptoms and signs involving speech and voice (R47-R49)
- General symptoms and signs (R50-R69)
- Symptoms related to multiple categories
- Medication and supplements
- Chemotherapy interventions
- Medication and supplement intake
- Other and unspecified pharmacological interventions
- Posology and protocol of administration
- Health and community care services utilization
- Visits to health professionals
- Hospitalizations
- Community and social care
- Other health and community care
- Death
- Cause of death
- Other end of life or death-related information
- Vital status
- Physical measures and assessments
- Physical characteristics
- Anthropometry
- Circulation and respiration
- Muscles, skeleton and mobility
- Sensory and pain
- Brain and nerves
- Skin and subcutaneous tissue
- Speech and voice
- Digestion
- Reproduction
- Other physical measures and assessments
- Laboratory measures
- Hematology
- Biochemistry
- Microbiology
- Virology
- Immunology
- Toxicology
- Histology
- Genomics
- Other laboratory measures
- Cognition, personality and psychological measures and assessments
- Cognitive functioning
- Personality
- Psychological distress and emotions
- Other psychological measures and assessments
- Social environment and relationships
- Social network
- Social participation
- Social support
- Parenting and familial environment
- Other social environment characteristics
Collection events
List of collection events defined for this resource...
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Networks
Part of networks...
NCC is a unique infrastructure of prospective cohort studies in the Netherlands with a focus on collection, harmonization and pooling of extensive data to address multimorbidity. Through NCC researchers will have access to a diversity of data concern...
Publications
Access conditions
The data access conditions can be found in the collaboration policy on the HELIUS website...
- Data access conditions
- health or medical or biomedical research
- Data use conditions
- research specific restrictions
- publication required
- Data access fee
- true
- Linkage options
- There are several possibilities for linkage with HELIUS data, namely: -GECCO: Environment data based on zip-codes -CBS: Cause of death from statistics Netherlands is linked to HELIUS data. -Vektis and Achmea: Data on incidence of type 2 diabetes from health insurances -GGD: Data on COVID testing, infections, and vaccination uptake from the Municipal Health Service -NKR: Data from the Netherland Cancer Registry