Population
167,729 inhabitants of the northern part of The Netherlands and their families, aged from 6 months to 93 years
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
every 5 years
Authors
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Provides extensive multi-generational data for chronic disease research; leaves open causal inference pending longitudinal outcomes.
The LifeLines Cohort Study provides a massive, three-generation biobank and dataset of 167,729 participants in The Netherlands to study chronic diseases and healthy ageing.
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