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27 collections

  • Airwave

    Airwave Health Monitoring Study
    The Airwave Tissue Bank is an epidemiological study of police officers and staff in Great Britain. It was established in 2003 to investigate possible long-term health effects associated with use of TETRA, the personal radio system used by the police service. Participant recruitment was piloted from June 2004 via paper questionnaire and health screen. After two years, the pilot was deemed successful and, with some revisions to the protocol, the main phase of recruitment began in 2006. We toured the country, spending time with police forces keen to enroll their officers and staff. Recruitment ended in March 2015 forming a baseline of approximately 53,000. In November 2015, we began a programme of follow-up health screens for participants whose previous screen was at least 5-years prior. This continued until the outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020. During the following two pandemic years the cohort volunteered for two important components of the REACT Study, making valuable contributions to research into diagnostic methods. The cohort has been richly phenotyped, flagged to routine records, and has a substantial biobank of blood and urine samples. It provides an excellent and unique resource to study the genetic, metabolic, occupational and lifestyle factors associated with mental health and cognitive performance among a predominantly male and young adult workforce with a well-defined organisational hierarchy.

  • CELSPAC-TNG

    Central European Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: The Next Generation
    This prospective birth cohort is designed to follow up 7000 children from their prenatal period to adolescence with the aim of assessing EXPOSOME factors potentially affecting children health.

  • Exposome Maps

    Exposome Maps
    Exposome Maps is a data catalogue of geospatially resolved datasets on environmental exposure estimates. It contains more than 100 datasets on several Exposome dimensions including Physico-Chemical Environment, Built Environment, Food Environment, and Social Environment. It provides harmonized data collections across Europe for following environmental factors: PM10, PM2.5, NO2, O3, Temperature, Ultra Violet Radiation, Road Traffic Noise, Urbanicity, NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index ), MSAVI (Modified Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index), Green spaces, Blue spaces, Imperviousness, Light at night, Walkability Index.

  • GECCO

    Geoscience and health cohort consortium

  • HAPIEE

    Health, Alcohol, and Psychosocial factors In Eastern Europe (HAPIEE) study

  • KORA Study

    KORA - Cooperative Health Research in the Region Augsburg
    KORA is a prospective population-based adult cohort study in the Region of Augsburg, Germany. Its research focus is diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, health in old age, allergies and the environment. The cohort consists of four cross-sectional baseline surveys from 1984 – 2001. In total, 17.602 participants were randomly selected from population registries in the study region. Follow-up studies are carried out at regular intervals.

  • PULMOLINES - PIAMA

    Prevention and Incidence of Asthma and Mite Allergy
    Birth cohort in Utrecht, Rotterdam and Groningen with RCT on the use of bed-covers in the first years

  • UK Biobank

    United Kingdom Biobank
    UK Biobank is the world's most comprehensive dataset of biological, health and lifestyle information. 500,000 people agreed to make all their health-related data available for research. They were between 40 and 69 years of age when they joined the study between 2006-2010. Between 2006 and 2010, we recruited 503,317 volunteers. Participants lived within a roughly 25-mile (40-km) radius of one of our 22 centres in Scotland, England and Wales. Around 86% of participants lived in urban areas at the time of recruitment. During recruitment, up to six centres were open at any one time, each seeing around 100 participants per day. A visit took around 2.5 hours. UK Biobank holds around 17 million containers with blood, urine and saliva samples. We collected around 50ml (approximately three tablespoons) of blood from all 500,000 UK Biobank participants during their first baseline visit to one of our centres, between 2006 and 2010. Additional samples were collected from participants who attended a repeat assessment, or our imaging assessments. Each participant's blood sample was separated into different tubes. The tubes contain different chemicals to prepare specific blood components for later analysis.

  • PONS

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