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EPIC-NL
European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition in the Netherlands (EPIC-NL)...
Description
EPIC is the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition. EPIC-NL is the Dutch contribution to EPIC and comprises about 40,000 individuals prospectively followed since the early 90's. Biological samples have been stored in liquid nitr...
General Design
- Type
- Cohort study
- Cohort type
- Population cohort
- Data collection type
- Prospective
- Design
- Longitudinal
- Design description
- At baseline, the prevalence of risk factors for chronic diseases was determined using self-administered questionnaires and a physical examination. Participants are followed up over time for changes in exposure and for the occurrence of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and other medical conditions. Subgroups of participants were invited for several follow-up rounds.
- Design schematic
- Design schematic
- Start/End data collection
- 1993 (ongoing)
- Design papers
- PID
- https://doi.org/10.71739/wfnj-cj15
Population
- Countries
- Netherlands (the)
- Regions
- Limburg, Noord-Holland, Utrecht, Gelderland
- Number of participants
- 40010
- Population age groups
- Adult (18+ years)
- Inclusion criteria
- Age group inclusion criterion
Organisations
Lead organisations
- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)Netherlands (the)https://www.rivm.nl
Contributors
- dr. N.C. (Charlotte) Onland-MoretUniversity Medical Center Utrecht
Principal Investigator
- prof. dr. ir. R.C.H. (Roel) VermeulenUniversity Medical Center Utrecht
Principal Investigator
- prof. dr. ir. W.M.M. (Monique) VerschurenNational Institute for Public Health and the Environment
Principal Investigator
Available Data & Samples
Data categories
- Biological samples
- Survey data
- National registries
- Physiological/Biochemical measurements
Sample categories
- Blood
- Blood (whole)
- Blood Buffy Coat
- Plasma
- Serum
Areas of information
- Socio-demographic and economic characteristics
- Age/birthdate
- Sex/gender
- Marital/partner status
- Education
- Residence
- Birthplace
- Labour force and retirement
- Lifestyle and behaviours
- Tobacco
- Alcohol
- Nutrition
- Breastfeeding
- Physical activity
- Transportation
- Sleep
- 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
- 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 cognition, perception, emotional state and behaviour (R40-R46)
- General symptoms and signs (R50-R69)
- Medication and supplements
- Medication and supplement intake
- Health and community care services utilization
- Visits to health professionals
- Hospitalizations
- Physical measures and assessments
- Anthropometry
- Circulation and respiration
- Sensory and pain
- Laboratory measures
- Hematology
- Cognition, personality and psychological measures and assessments
- Psychological distress and emotions
- Physical environment
- Housing characteristics
- Workplace characteristics
- Radiation exposure
- Chemical exposure
Subpopulations
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Collection events
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Networks
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Publications
Access conditions
A data request is judged by the scientific steering committee. The application form can be found in the documents. The EPIC-NL steering committee is not responsible for further legal procedures and researchers need to make a DMP and n-WMO request in ...
- Data access conditions
- health or medical or biomedical research
- disease specific research
- Data use conditions
- research specific restrictions
- not for profit, non commercial use only
- Data access fee
- true
- Release type
- Other release type
- Release description
- In principle data will be made available in a secure data analysis environment after signing a data sharing agreement. nWMO testing and the development of a datamanagementplan need to be part of the project and are the responsibility of the researcher.
- Prelinked
- true
- Linkage options
- CBS (national bureau of statistics); IKNL-NKR (Cancer registration); DHD (Dutch Hospital Discharge diagnosis); GBA (municipal registry for current address and vital status)
Funding & Acknowledgements
- Funding
- The EPIC-NL study was funded by ‘Europe against Cancer’ Programme of the European Commission (DG SANCO); the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS); the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMW); and World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF).
- Acknowledgements
- We thank GBA, Statistics Netherlands, Dutch Cancer Registry and the institute PHARMO for providing data on vital status, cause of death and occurrence of cancer and other chronic diseases.