Over 500 scientific publications in a wide variety of fields have been realised with the use of data and samples from the Lifelines cohort, a project that originated at the UMCG and is still closely linked to it.. Our collection contributes to new knowledge on the role of genetics, lifestyle, life events and environment in healthy ageing and to improvements in disease prevention and health care. More recently, Lifelines data provided policymakers insight in the impact of the covid-pandemic on mental health.
Facilitate high-impact research by collecting data and biomaterials from our population cohort since 2006. Every 1.5 years participants complete a comprehensive questionnaire and once every 5 years participants visit a Lifelines location where biological samples are collected and several physical and cognitive tests are conducted.
Our collection derives it’s worth through the work of our research partners who analyse the data, discover new knowledge and implement it in data driven policies aimed to benefit people and our society as a whole.
Since the start of Lifelines over 500 publications have been published with use of Lifelines-data. For these publications we work together with scientific institutes and organisations all over the Netherlands, Europe and beyond.
Within UMCG we collaborate with many departments, such as epidemiology, genetics, psychiatry, cardiology, internal medicine, laboratory medicine, health sciences, radiology, obstetrics & gynaecology, paediatrics.
Because we are an open protocol cohort study we offer researchers the opportunity to collect additional data and/or biological samples within the existing infrastructure.
See also: LifeLines Additional study
