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

Publication: Anxiety disorders and CRP in a population cohort study with 54326 participants - The Lifelines study

Publication: Blood eosinophil count and metabolic, cardiac and pulmonary outcomes: A Mendelian randomization study

Publication: Single-cell RNA sequencing identifies cell type-specific cis-eQTLs and co-expression QTLs

Researchers: van der Wijst MGP, Brugge H, de Vries DH, Deelen P, Swertz MA, Lifelines Cohort Study, BIOS consortium, Franke L

Data workshops: How can our data help your proposal or research?

Stay up to date: Unique data available for researchers worldwide

Lifelines interactive map presents data

The data of the first wave of the Lifelines cohort study is presented in an interactive geo-map. The map gives a geographical presentation of more than 1500 variables of Lifelines participants at baseline.

Presentatie over de mogelijkheden om met gecombineerde Lifelines-CBS data meer wetenschappelijk onderzoek mogelijk te maken

Wij maken wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar gezonder oud worden mogelijk door data en lichaamsmaterialen te verzamelen onder 167.000 inwoners in Noord-Nederland.

New Lifelines dataset available

As of July 5, the first set of data from the second assessment has been included in the Lifelines catalogue. An extensive amount of longitudinal data has been released, containing both measurement and self-reported data of the second wave of more than 100,000 Lifelines adult participants. In addition, all baseline data from children is now available. Feel free to browse our catalogue to explore the potential of this new data for your own research.

Lifelines catalogue offline June 29 – July 5

Annual Scientific Symposium

Lifelines Symposium November 3rd

In the news: Corticosteroid inhalers associated with higher BMI

Corticosteroid inhalers appear to increase the risk for a higher BMI in adults. This correlation was strongest for women. A link has also been shown between the use of these anti-inflammatory inhalers and metabolic syndrome in women. Metabolic syndrome is a medical term for a combination of conditions that increases the risk for type II diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. This has been shown for the first time by research conducted by Erasmus MC.   

Third research round Lifelines

Due to uncertainty in the financing of Lifelines after 2017, changes in the organization of Lifelines are inevitable. Fortunately, the University of Groningen and the UMCG realize the importance of our unique cohort study. They pledged their support to Lifelines, which means that all data and biomaterials will be preserved. All running and future projects, including the additional studies, can be pursued. Thus, for researchers who make use of Lifelines, everything remains the same. Our next challenge is getting funding for the third research round.