Transcript Uppsala Longitudinal Study of Adult Men (ULSAM)

Uppsala Longitudinal Study of
Adult Men (ULSAM)
Age 50
1970 - 1973
N = 2322
Age 60
Age 70
Age 77
Age 88
1980 - 1985
1991 - 1995
1997 - 2001
2008 - 2009
N = 1860
N = 1221
N = 839
N = 354
Age 82
2003 - 2005
N = 530
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Participation
1.0
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Cumulative Proportion Surviving
0.9
0.2
0.1
0.0
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Causes of death
By October 2010, 576 participants still were alive
 1746 participants have dead
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Hospital visits
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74 individuals have never been at the hospital
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46% off them are still alive
26% died over age of 65
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From remaining 2248 participants only 24% are still
alive
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They all together have visited hospital more than 23
000 times and have spent there over
200 000 days
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Use of hospital time 1970-2009
Total 218 847 days
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Measurements
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Genetic Analyses
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First genetic study published in 1997
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Over 4000 individual SNPs genotyped
2003 - 2010
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In 2010 1221 individuals were genotyped
for ~180 000 SNPs using MetaboChip
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In 2010 110 individuals were genotyped using
Illumina 1M chip
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Research activity
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At least 50 researchers have been working with ULSAM
data under last three years
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Over 150 research proposals have been approved by
ICTUS group from 2002
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At least 220 articles have been published from ULSAM
initiation in 1970
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27 doctoral theses have been defended
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Articles and theses based on
ULSAM cohort
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