The LIFE-Adult-Study: objectives and design of a population-based cohort study with 10,000 deeply phenotyped adults in Germany

Loeffler, Markus; Engel, Christoph; Ahnert, Peter; Alfermann, Dorothee; Arélin, Katrin; Baber, Ronny; Beutner, Frank; Binder, Hans; Brähler, Elmar; Burkhardt, Ralph; Ceglarek, Uta; Enzenbach, Cornelia; Fuchs, Michael; Glaesmer, Heide; Girlich, Friederike; Hagendorff, Andreas; Häntzsch, Madlen; Hegerl, Ulrich; Henger, Sylvia; Hensch, Tilman; Hinz, Andreas; Holzendorf, Volker; Husser, Daniela; Kersting, Anette; Kiel, Alexander; Kirsten, Toralf; Kratzsch, Jürgen; Krohn, Knut; Luck, Tobias; Melzer, Susanne; Netto, Jeffrey; Nüchter, Matthias; Raschpichler, Matthias; G. Rauscher, Franziska; G. Riedel‐Heller, Steffi; Sander, Christian; Scholz, Markus; Schönknecht, Peter; L. Schroeter, Matthias; Simon, Jan‐Christoph; Speer, Ronald; Stäker, Julia; Stein, Robert; Stöbel‐Richter, Yve; Stümvoll, Michael; Tárnok, Attila; Teren, Andrej; Teupser, Daniel; S. Then, Francisca; Tönjes, Anke; Treudler, Regina; Villringer, Arno; Weissgerber, Alexander; Wiedemann, Peter; Zachariae, Silke; Wirkner, Kerstin; Thiery, Joachim

doi:10.1186/s12889-015-1983-z

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The LIFE-Adult-Study: objectives and design of a population-based cohort study with 10,000 deeply phenotyped adults in Germany

Published in BMC Public Health • Jul 21, 2015

Authors:

Markus Loeffler

Christoph Engel

Peter Ahnert

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The LIFE-Adult-Study is a population-based cohort study, which has recently completed the baseline examination of 10,000 randomly selected participants from Leipzig, a major city with 550,000 inhabitants in the east of Germany. It is the first study of this kind and size in an urban popu...

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Medicine

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Population

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