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The Hoorn Diabetes Care System Cohort
Description
The Hoorn Diabetes Care System cohort (DCS) is a prospective cohort representing a comprehensive dataset on the natural course of T2D, with repeated clinical measures and outcomes.
General Design
- Type
- Biobank, Clinical trial, Cohort study
- Cohort type
- Clinical cohort, Population cohort
- Data collection type
- Retrospective, Prospective
- Design
- Longitudinal
- Design description
- Open dynamic cohort of type 2 diabetes primary care patients with yearly measurements.
- Start/End data collection
- 1997 (ongoing)
- Design paper
- The Hoorn Diabetes Care System (DCS) cohort. A prospective cohort of persons with type 2 diabetes treated in primary care in the Netherlands
Population
- Countries
- Netherlands (the)
- Number of participants
- 15000
- Population age groups
- Adult (18+ years)
Organisations
Lead organisations
- Amsterdam University Medical CentersNetherlands (the)https://www.amsterdamumc.org
Additional organisations
- Huisartsenorganisatie West-Friesland
- Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC)Netherlands (the)https://www.lumc.nl
Contributors
- prof. dr. Petra Eldersp.elders@amsterdamumc.nl
Networks
Part of networks
Publications
Access conditions
https://hoornstudies.com/data-request-form/
- Data access conditions
- disease specific research
- Data use conditions
- user specific restriction
- Data access fee
- true