The Urban Exposome is the complex mixture of social and environmental factors in the urban environment that collectively have an impact on health. Currently, slightly over 70% of Europe’s population lives in an urban environment. This percentage is expected to exceed 80% by 2030. It is therefore crucial that European urban areas provide a healthy living environment. The EXPANSE project addresses one of the most pertinent questions for urban planners, policy makers, and inhabitants in Europe: “How to maximize health in a modern urban environment?”
WebsiteNetwork detailsCatalogueUK Biobank
United Kingdom Biobank
Description
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.
General Design
- Type
- Biobank, Cohort study
- Cohort type
- Population cohort
- Data collection type
- Prospective
- Design
- Longitudinal
- Start/End data collection
- 2006 until 2010
Population
- Continents
- Europe
- Countries
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
- Number of participants
- 503317
- Population age groups
- Adult (25-44 years), Middle-aged (45-64 years), Aged (65-79 years)
Organisations
Lead organisations
- University of SurreyUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)https://www.surrey.ac.uk
Contributors
Available Data & Samples
Data categories
- Omics
- Genomics
- Epigenomics
- Transcriptomics
- Proteomics
- Metabolomics
Areas of information
- Socio-demographic and economic characteristics
- Socio-demographic
- Socio-economic capital
- Age/birthdate
- Sex/gender
- Education
- Ethnicity, race and religion
- Labour force and retirement
- Parental occupation
- Income, possessions, and benefits
- Other socio-demographic and economic characteristics
- Lifestyle and behaviours
- Tobacco
- Alcohol
- Drugs
- Nutrition
- Physical activity
- Birth, pregnancy and reproductive health history
- Pregnancy, delivery and birth
- Fertility and sexual health
- Other reproductive health-related information
- Family Health History
- Parental diseases
- Cognition, personality and psychological measures and assessments
- Psychological distress and emotions
- Social environment and relationships
- Other social environment characteristics
- Physical environment
- Air pollution (outdoor)
- Air pollution (indoor)
- Noise, traffic, or light
Data dictionaries
Tables
Tables and their description
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
No results for current selection |
Variables
Variables and their description
| Variable | Table | |
|---|---|---|
No results for current selection |
Collection events
List of collection events defined for this resource
| Name | Description | Participants | Start end year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
No results for current selection |
Networks
Part of networks