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.
- Start/End data collection
- 1993 (ongoing)
- Design paper
- Cohort Profile: The EPIC-NL study
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
- Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM)
- UMC Utrecht (UMCU)Netherlands (the)
Researcher
Contributors
- Monique VerschurenRijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieumonique.verschuren@rivm.nl
Principal Investigator
Subpopulations
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Collection events
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Networks
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Publications
Access conditions
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- 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
- false
- Release type
- Other release type
- Release description
- at request
- Prelinked
- true
- Linkage options
- CBS (national bureau of statistics); IKNL-NKR (Cancer registration); 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 (SANCO); the Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (formerly Ministry of Welfare, Public Health and Culture); the Dutch Cancer Society; ZonMW the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development; 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.