Cohort Profile: The EPIC-NL study
Key result
The EPIC-NL study merged the Prospect and MORGEN cohorts, creating a unified cohort of 40,011 participants in the Netherlands to investigate genetic and environmental factors in chronic diseases.
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Implication
Enables large-scale gene-environment research on chronic diseases; leaves open specific associations and generalizability pending further analyses.
Study Design
Type
Cohort (n=40,011)
Multicenter
Yes
PICO
P
Population
chronic diseases (n=40,011)
Cite This Study
Beulens et al. (2009) conducted a cohort in chronic diseases (n=40,011). The EPIC-NL study merged the Prospect and MORGEN cohorts, creating a unified cohort of 40,011 participants in the Netherlands to investigate genetic and environmental factors in chronic diseases.