Date of filling in this questionnaire or last update: 05/03/2021
1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
  SALIA
Country
 

  • Germany

Please provide any other information on the cohort location/s if needed
  Ruhr Area of Germany
Name
  Tamara Schikowski
Institution
  IUF Leibniz Institute for Environmental Medicine
Email
  tamara.schikowski@iuf-duesseldorf.de
Phone
  +49 211 3389341
Name of committee
  Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf
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Contact Principal Investigator (name)
  Tamara Schikowski
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 asess the long-term effects of air pollution and other environmental factors on health in women. The study includes occupational exposures since 1985 as well.
Study design (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Prospective cohort

Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • General population: National
  • Generation (parents-children) study

Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • External study population (includes SMR/SIR studies)

Inclusion criteria
  inital study population: women only aged 55 at baseline
Enrollment
  Completed
Age range at entry (main cohort)
 

Minimum Maximum Mean
55

Women at enrollment
  4575
Women at last follow-up
  542
2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Active (contact with participants)
  • Death certificate

Active (contact with participants) (specify)
 

  • clinical examinations and interviews

First follow-up period (provide year)
  2006
Last follow-up period (provide year)
  2020
Number of follow-ups after baseline (provide number)
  5
3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Questionnaire, Personal (Self-reporting or interview)
  • Environmental samples

Occupational history/time frame
  Lifetime
Occupational coding performed
  No
Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Data modelling

4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED
Baseline - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Clinical/functional evaluation, e.g. spirometry, ECGs (specify)
  • Death certificates
  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)

Specify: Clinical/functional evaluation, e.g. spirometry, ECGs
  Spirometry
Follow-up - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Clinical/functional evaluation, e.g. spirometry, ECGs (specify)
  • Death certificates
  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)

Specify: Clinical/functional evaluation, e.g. spirometry, ECGs
  Spirometry, ECG, Mental health assessment
Outcome type (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Mortality
  • Morbidity

Diagnostic groups based on ICD10
 

  • E Malnutrition and obesity
  • F Mental disorders
  • I Cerebrovascular diseases
  • J Respiratory disease
  • L Skin, nail and hair disorders

E Malnutrition and obesity
 

  • Obesity

F Mental disorders
 

  • Dementia
  • Depression
  • Other mental disorder, not otherwise specified

I Cerebrovascular diseases
 

  • Stroke, not specified as haemorrhage or infarction
  • Atherosclerosis

J Respiratory disease
 

  • Chronic rhinitis, nasopharyngitis and pharyngitis
  • Chronic Bronchitis
  • Emphysema
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
  • Asthma

L Skin, nail and hair disorders
 

  • Atopic dermatitis
  • Allergic contact dermatitis
  • Sunburn

Other health related outcomes
 

  • Biomarkers
  • Lifestyle change
  • Quality of life/wellbeing

5. BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES & ANALYSIS
Biological samples collected
 

  • Blood
  • Sputum
  • Urine

Biological processing
 

  • DNA

Genetic and other lab analyses
 

  • Biomarkers (specify)
  • Genomics / GWAS

Specify: Biomarkers
  Inflammatory Markers in blood and sputum
6. Other Information
 

  • Alcohol
  • Anthropometry
  • Demographics
  • Diet
  • Education
  • Environmental, air pollution
  • Environmental other (specify)
  • Medical history
  • Physical exercise
  • Residential history
  • Socioeconomic status
  • Smoking

Specify: Environmental other
  temperature and greenness