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Date of filling in this questionnaire or last update: 12/01/2022
1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
  EPIPorto
Country
 

  • Portugal
Please provide any other information on the cohort location/s if needed
  Porto
Name
  Henrique Barros
Email
  henrique.barros@ispup.up.pt
Website
 

  • https://ispup.up.pt/research/research-structures/?lang=en
Name of committee
  Comisssão de Ética Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de São João e Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto
Contact Principal Investigator (name)
  Henrique Barros
Is this cohort part of a consortium? (name consortium)
  LIFEPATH
Participation in pooled analyses
 

  • The cohort is potentially interested in participating in pooled analyses of (European) occupational cohort studies (note pooled analyses also includes remote decentralized analyses that would not require any transfer of primary data as well as meta-analyses).
Main aim of cohort, please briefly describe the main objectives of the cohort
  To assess the determinants of health in the adult population of Porto.
Study design (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Prospective cohort
  • Nested case-control / Case-cohort
Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • General population: Regional
Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Internal study population
Inclusion criteria
  Adults (>18 years old) permanently residing in the city of Porto.
Enrollment
  Completed
Age range at entry (main cohort)
 

Minimum Maximum Mean
18

Men at enrollment
  947
Women at enrollment
  1538
Participation rate at enrollment (if known)
  70
2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Active (contact with participants)
  • Death certificate
  • Hospital / physician diagnoses
First follow-up period (provide year)
  2005-2008
Last follow-up period (provide year)
  2018
Number of follow-ups after baseline (provide number)
  3
3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Questionnaire, Personal (Self-reporting or interview)
Occupational history/time frame
  Current, at enrollment
Occupational coding performed
  Yes
Occupation (specify coding system used)
 

  • Portuguese Classification of Occupations 2010, based on ISCO-08
Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Self-report
Main categories
 

  • Psychosocial domains
Psychosocial domains | Job task characteristics/organization of work
 

  • Job control, autonomy
4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED
Baseline - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Biomarker (specify)
  • Clinical/functional evaluation, e.g. spirometry, ECGs (specify)
  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)
Specify: Clinical/functional evaluation, e.g. spirometry, ECGs
  Spirometry, ECG, blood sample collection
Follow-up - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Biomarker (specify)
  • Clinical/functional evaluation, e.g. spirometry, ECGs (specify)
  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)
Specify: Clinical/functional evaluation, e.g. spirometry, ECGs
  Spirometry, ECG, blood sample collection
Outcome type (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Mortality
  • Morbidity
Diagnostic groups based on ICD10
 

  • C + D Neoplasms
  • E Endocrinological disease
  • E Metabolism disease
  • I Heart disease
  • I Cerebrovascular diseases
  • J Respiratory disease
  • L Skin, nail and hair disorders
  • M Arthritis, arthrosis, systemic connective disorders, spine disorders
  • M Disorders of muscles, bones, synovialis, bursa, cartilage
  • S Injuries
E Endocrinological disease
 

  • Thyroidea
  • Diabetes mellitus
E Metabolism disease
 

  • Hypercholesterolemia
I Heart disease
 

  • Hypertensive diseases
  • Acute myocardial infarction
  • Heart failure
I Cerebrovascular diseases
 

  • Stroke, not specified as haemorrhage or infarction
J Respiratory disease
 

  • Acute bronchitis
  • Emphysema
  • Asthma
M Arthritis, arthrosis, systemic connective disorders, spine disorders
 

  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Gout
  • Other arthritis
  • Coxarthrosis
  • Gonarthrosis [arthrosis of knee]
  • Arthrosis of first carpometacarpal joint
  • Other arthrosis
  • Deformities of fingers and toes
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus
  • Low back pain
M Disorders of muscles, bones, synovialis, bursa, cartilage
 

  • Chronic crepitant synovitis of hand and wrist
  • Bursitis of hand
  • Olecranon bursitis
  • Prepatellar bursitis
  • Other bursitis
  • Osteoporosis
S Injuries
 

  • Other, please state
S Injuries | Other (specify)
  Fractures
Other health related outcomes
 

  • Quality of life/wellbeing
5. BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES & ANALYSIS
Biological samples collected
 

  • Blood
Biological processing
 

  • DNA
6. Other Information
 

  • Alcohol
  • Anthropometry
  • Demographics
  • Diet
  • Education
  • Medical history
  • Physical exercise
  • Socioeconomic status
  • Smoking
Possibility for linkage to data registries/data enrichment via data linkage
 

  • Hospital discharge
  • Mortality register