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

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG HEART CENTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Diseases of civilization; Epidemiology; Population based

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESEARCH DESIGN; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84937428929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-1983-z     Document Type: Article

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