The latest news from Lifelines

Current health issues call for interdisciplinary collaboration

The Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health and Lifelines are organising the Lifelines Researchers Community Event on 10 October. The aim of the event is to promote interaction between researchers from different disciplines and exchange knowledge. Jochen Mierau, scientific director of Lifelines, looks ahead to the event.

High Prevalence of Lung Nodules in Northern European Nonsmokers

A recent study in Northern Europe found that lung nodules are prevalent in nearly half of nonsmoking men and over a third of nonsmoking women, raising concerns about lung health management in this traditionally low-risk group.

Synthetic Data: Lifelines in Collaboration with Syntho

Recently at Lifelines, we have been working on a new innovation to make our data more accessible for research while strengthening the privacy of our participants. Using synthetic data from Syntho, we can now generate a dataset that has the same statistical properties as the collected data, without including the exact data of our participants.

Innovative digital assistant: Lifelines and Aevai Health join forces!

Lifelines and Aevai Health are launching a brand new and innovative pilot project: a digital assistant that guides participants through self-measurement.

Lifelines opened its doors in UMCG for the fourth assessment

Lifelines opened the first location the fourth round of the long-term, Northern health study. A new location has been set up in the UMCG.

PharmLines Initiative: long-term detailed drug prescription

Lifelines and Certe join forces

The third assessment of Lifelines will start in October this year. To collect data and biomaterials for this assessment, Lifelines will collaborate with Certe: an organisation for medical diagnostics and advice in the north of the Netherlands. 167.000 Lifelines participants will be invited over a period of 5 years to visit a Certe location.

Experience of a researcher: Melissa Vos

Data workshop and Lifestore visit

Are you planning a research proposal? Do you need more information about the available data and how to get access? If so, please sign up for our next workshop on Tuesday 17th September, from 11.00 - 13.00. This workshop will include a demonstration of our virtual analysis environment (‘workspace’) and a tour of our Lifestore. Lunch will be included.

Lifelines on the move!

Experience of a researcher

Linda van Kerkhof works as a researcher for the RIVM and used Lifelines data for her work multiple times. Recently Linda hit national news with her publication: “Effect of evening screen use on sleep and health in children and adolescents”. For this publication she also made use of Lifelines data. In an interview we asked her about her research and her experiences with Lifelines. Below you can read the interview.

The rationale and design of the ImaLife study published

Newsletter for researchters | spring edition

New! Linking environmental data to health data

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PharmLines Initiative: long-term detailed drug prescription data available

In 2017, the Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy (GRIP) and Lifelines started the “PharmLines Initiative” to link the multidisciplinary data of the Lifelines Cohort Study to the medication data of the widely researched prescription database, IADB.nl. The aim of the PharmLines Initiative is to facilitate research on medical drug data in combination with the broad health and biobank data of Lifelines. The IADB.nl staff has invested in expanding the database to include pharmacies in the Lifelines regions and from September 1, 2018 the 2017 database covering approximately 1.5 million persons will be available for linkage. Researchers worldwide and from diverse disciplines can now apply for the unique use of these linked Lifelines and IADB.nl prescription data. A further initiative is the linkage of genetic data to enable pharmacogenetic research.

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