Experience of a researcher

Linda van Kerkhof works as a researcher for the RIVM and used Lifelines data for her work multiple times. Recently Linda hit national news with her publication: “Effect of evening screen use on sleep and health in children and adolescents”. For this publication she also made use of Lifelines data. In an interview we asked her about her research and her experiences with Lifelines. Below you can read the interview. 

The rationale and design of the ImaLife study published

Newsletter for researchters | spring edition

New! Linking environmental data to health data

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PharmLines Initiative: long-term detailed drug prescription data available

In 2017, the Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy (GRIP) and Lifelines started the “PharmLines Initiative” to link the multidisciplinary data of the Lifelines Cohort Study to the medication data of the widely researched prescription database, IADB.nl. The aim of the PharmLines Initiative is to facilitate research on medical drug data in combination with the broad health and biobank data of Lifelines. The IADB.nl staff has invested in expanding the database to include pharmacies in the Lifelines regions and from September 1, 2018 the 2017 database covering approximately 1.5 million persons will be available for linkage. Researchers worldwide and from diverse disciplines can now apply for the unique use of these linked Lifelines and IADB.nl prescription data. A further initiative is the linkage of genetic data to enable pharmacogenetic research.

Sign up for the next Lifelines Data Workshop

We would like to invite you to the Lifelines Data Workshop on the 13th of September. It takes place from 12.00 to 13.30 pm at our location Bloemsingel 1 Groningen. Lunch will be included.

Lifelines continues: summer newsletter

Publication: AGEs are associated with physical activity and physical functioning in the older population