Disease follow-up for all the cohorts is conducted by active follow-up every 5 years and linkage to national disease and death registries.
The Singapore Health study is a nationally representative cross-sectional survey with the aim to estimate the prevalence of:
- Health conditions of hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, diabetes, overweight and obesity, hearing loss and chronic kidney disease, mental wellbeing and to allow comparison of these data with the National Health Survey 2010;
- Specific health behaviours; and
- Participation in health screening for chronic diseases, cervical cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer
2,352 Singapore citizens and permanent residents of age 18 to 79 years old participated in the survey from August 2012 to March 2013. Overall response rate was 40%. 1956 of the participants also underwent physical examination, additional surveys and provided blood and urine samples for tests and storage.
Last update – 28/06/2017