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The Norfolk component of the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC) recruited over 30,000 people from 1993 to 2000. EPIC-Norfolk participants are men and women who were aged between 40 and 79 when they joined the study and who lived in Norwich and the surrounding towns and rural areas. They have been contributing information about their diet, lifestyle and health through questionnaires and health checks over two decades.
Following baseline data collection the cohort has been followed up at 18 months by questionnaire, 3 years (1997-2000) – second health check and questionnaire, 10 years – health questionnaire , 13 years (2006-2011) – third Health examination and questionnaire.
The primary aim of the ten country half a million international EPIC collaboration is to examine the relationships between diet and incident cancers; that is, cancers which have developed after they joined the study. This broadened to include lifestyle and genetic factors and other diseases
A secondary aim is to study the relationship between dietary intake and other diseases and disease risk factors. In EPIC-Norfolk, these include heart attacks and strokes, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, thyroid disease, osteoporosis, dementia, eye diseases and many others. We are also studying the link between disease and other factors, such as psychosocial health.
EPIC Norfolk is part of the Dementias Platform UK (DPUK), a multi-million pound public-private partnership to accelerate progress in dementias research.
Last update: 07/12/2017
Types General population-based cohort
Participant Types No diagnosis
Countries United Kingdom
Genders Male and Female
Sample sizes 20,000 to 49,999
Ages 40 to 59|60 to 100
Brain related measures Cognitive function
Funtional rating
Anthropometric Blood pressure|Height|Hip circumference|Waist circumference|Weight
Physical Cardiovascular|Hearing and Vision|Musculoskeletal|Reproductive|Respiratory
Biological samples Blood|Cerebral spinal fluid (CSF)>CSF biomarker data available|Other|Urine
Genotyping
Brain imaging
Brain banking
Lifestyle Alcohol|Dietary habits|Physical activity|Smoking
Socio-economic Education|Ethnic group|Family circumstances|Housing and accommodation|Income and finances|Informal support|Marital status|Occupation and employment
Health service utilisation Formal health and social care service utilisation including private care
Institute names University of Cambridge
Current Sample Sizes 20,000 to 49,999
age at recruitment 40-79
last updated
recruitment period 1993-97
estimated current sample size number value 20025
cohort acronym EPIC – Norfolk
start date 1993-97
pi Professor Kay-Tee Khaw
website http://www.srl.cam.ac.uk/epic/
contact details Strangeways Research Laboratory
Wort’s Causeway
Cambridge
CB1 8RN
abstract EPICNorfolk is a component of a ten country collaboration which began in 1993 looking at the relationship between diet and cancer and diet and other diseases. EPIC-Norfolk recruited over 30,000 participants aged between 40-79.
funders Medical Research Council
Cancer Research UK
contact email PI Email: [email protected]. General Email: [email protected]
contact phone number +44 (0) 1223 740170
estimated current sample size 20,000 to 49,999
sample sizes 30000