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Date of filling in this questionnaire or last update: 19/05/2020
1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
  The Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT)
Country
 

  • Norway
Name
  Steinar Krokstad
Institution
  Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Email
  steinak@ntnu.no
Phone
  +4795219227
Personal website
  https://www.ntnu.no/ansatte/steinar.krokstad
Website
 

  • https://www.ntnu.no/hunt
Name of committee
  Central Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research, Norway
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Data access policy (briefly describe)
  Data are available for research projects upon application and after REC approval. https://www.ntnu.no/hunt/forskning
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).
Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
 

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

  • Internal study population
  • External comparison of workers with other exposure
Inclusion criteria
  The total adult population in the Trøndelag County Norway
Enrollment
  Ongoing
Age range at entry (main cohort)
 

Minimum Maximum Mean
13 (20 adult) 101 51

Men at enrollment
  78.000
Women at enrollment
  82.000
Children (<18 years) at enrollment
  6000
Participation rate at enrollment (if known)
  54
2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Active (contact with participants)
  • Death certificate
  • Disease incidence records
Active (contact with participants) (specify)
 

  • New surveys every decade
Death certificate (specify)
 

  • National Causes of Death Register
Disease incidence records (specify)
 

  • Several national disease specific registers
First follow-up period (provide year)
  1984
Last follow-up period (provide year)
  2019
Number of follow-ups after baseline (provide number)
  80.000
Participation at last follow-up (if known)
  54
3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Questionnaire, Personal (Self-reporting or interview)
  • Questionnaire, Personal (Occupational/industry modules)
  • Breath samples
Occupational history/time frame
  Follow-up period
Occupational coding performed
  Yes
Occupation (specify coding system used)
 

  • Norwegian Occupational Classification
Industry (specify coding system used)
 

  • Industry branches
Types of exposure measurements
 

  • Biomarkers (see also section 5)
Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Measurements (external sampling, biomarkers)
  • Self-report
Main categories
 

  • Solvents
  • Pesticides
Dusts and fibres | Organic dusts | Specify: Other
  Dust in general
Solvents | Other
 

  • Other
Solvents | Other | Specify: Other
  Solvents in general
Pesticides | Fungicides
 

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

  • Biomarker (specify)
  • Death certificates
  • Medical records
  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)
  • Registry-based
Specify: Biomarker
  Blood samples
Registry-based
 

  • Birth register
  • Cancer incidence
  • Disease specific clinical database
  • Employment status
  • Hospital discharge
  • Medication usage
  • Mortality register
  • Migration
Follow-up - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Biomarker (specify)
  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)
  • Registry-based
Specify: Biomarker
  Blood samples
Registry-based
 

  • Birth register
  • Cancer incidence
  • Employment status
  • Hospital discharge
  • Medication usage
  • Mortality register
  • Migration
Outcome type (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Mortality
  • Morbidity
  • Disability
Other health related outcomes
 

  • Biomarkers
  • Lifestyle change
  • Sickness absence
  • Sleep
  • Work participation
5. BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES & ANALYSIS
Biological samples collected
 

  • Blood
  • Urine
Biological processing
 

  • DNA
  • RNA
Genetic and other lab analyses
 

  • Biomarkers (specify)
  • Epigenomics
  • Genomics / GWAS
Specify: Biomarkers
  Blood available
6. Other Information
 

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

  • Birth register
  • Cancer incidence
  • Employment status
  • Hospital discharge
  • Medication usage
  • Migration
  • Mortality register