Lifelines data provides many opportunities for good research
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Data collection of 167.000 participants
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Including 3 generations
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Followed for 30 years
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Diverse expert fields
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Recalling of participants
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“For the ImaLife project we investigate early imaging biomarkers of cardiovascular disease, lung cancer and chronic obstructive lung diseases. In total, 12,000 Lifelines participants undergo low-dose CT imaging of heart and lungs.”
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"Among Lifelines participants, we found that 10% used systemic or local corticosteroids, which implicates that these potential side effects may have important negative effects on public health.”
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"Lifelines offers a broad biobank with many options for research. The possibility to obtain more data of our interest in a timely fashion was also essential for our project. It is great that this data will be available for further studies."