Cooperative Health Research in the Augsburg Region

KORA
Cooperative Health Research in the Augsburg Region

http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/en/kora-en/kora-homepage/index.html
[email protected]

Data collection ongoing

Germany

please check the KORA website. We have an extensive phenotypic characterization (examinations, interview, questionnaires) including hundreds of variables. In addition, we have blood samples and other biomaterials from which genetic and metabolomic markers have been measured.

Yes – intend to apply for funding

Neurodegenerative disease in general| Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias| Parkinson’s disease

Yes

Data made publicly available after a specified time point
Yes

The aim of the cohort is to study behavioural, environmental and genetic risk factors for chronic diseases in the aging population and to study the role of subclinical intermediate phenotypes for disease development.
This is a population-based cohort and therefore will contain some persons with these disease. However, these patients are not identified by a clinical diagnosis but at best by a screening test
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More than 15,000 participants

Prospective cohort

No
see Q8. Since all participants are selected from the population, they have several times been used as population controls.
01/01/1984

Data collection ongoing

Cooperative Health Research in the Augsburg Region
Already possible

Population Cohorts
Germany
Alzheimer’s disease & other dementias|Neurodegenerative disease in general|Parkinson’s disease & PD-related disorders
2016