Swedish Women's Lifestyle and Health Cohort Study ( SWLH)
SWLH aimed to create a large prospective cohort designed specifically to investigate the association between lifestyle factors (exogenous hormones and dietary habits) and cancer and cardiovascular diseases in young women. The participants are women, aged 29 to 49 years at the time of recruitment (born between 1943 and 1962), and residing in the Uppsala Health Care Region, Sweden. Participants were randomly selected from the Swedish Population Registry at Statistics Sweden. All participants are continuously monitored through linkage to Swedish registries on death, inpatient care and immigration. The participants in the WLH cohort completed a baseline questionnaire in 1991–1992. A follow-up questionnaire was sent in 2003 to all women still alive and residing in Sweden at that time.
Study design
Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
49,258 (participants)
Age at first data collection
29 - 49 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
1943 - 1962 (participants)
Participant sex
Female
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1991
Primary Institutions
Karolinska Institute (Karolinska Institutet, KI)
Links
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Medical Products Agency (Läkemedelsverket, MPA)
Swedish Cancer Society
Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet)
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Secondary data
- Self-report questionnaire – online
- Self-report questionnaire – paper or computer assisted
- None
- None
- Healthcare data
- Mortality data
- Other government data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
