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Start Year
1987
End Year
2000
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Investigators Contacts
  • Maria Wahlberg
    Karolinska Institute

Design

Study design
Cohort
Follow Up

The KP involves 5 times of assessment spanning a period of 13 years.

Supplementary Information

Marker Paper

Fratiglioni L, Viitanen M, Bäckman L, Sandman PO, Winblad B. Occurrence of dementia in advanced age: the study design of the Kungsholmen Project. Neuroepidemiology. 1992;11 Suppl 1:29-36.

PUBMED 1603245

Recruitment

Recruitment Target
  • Individuals

Number of Participants

Number of Participants
1,810
Number of Participants with Biological Samples
1,810

Access

Availability of data and biosamples

Possible Access to Data
Possible Access to Biosamples
Other
Yes
No
Not applicable
Don't know

Timeline

Populations

Selection Criteria
Minimum age
75
Newborns
Twins
Countries
  • Sweden
Territory
Kungsholmen
Ethnic Origin
Health Status

Recruitment

Sources of recruitment
  • General population
General Population
  • Selected sample

Number of Participants

Number of Participants
1,810
Number of Participants with Biological Samples
1,810
Supplementary Information about selection criteria

Phase I: 1810 participants

Phase II: 668 participants

Phase III: 1099 participants

Phase IV: 680 participants

Phase V: 421 participants

Phase VI: 265 participants

Data Collection Events
# Name Description Start End
0 KP - KP12 - Phase I

The initial screening involved a nurse interview where they sought information on social factors, social network, recreational activities, socio-economic status, residence, activities of daily ...

 1987 1989
1 KP - KP12 - Phase II All participants were interviewed by nurses, clinically examined by physicians, and assessed by psychologists. The nurses measured blood pressure, height, and weight, collected blood samples, and ... 1987 1989
2 KP - KP12 - Phase III All participants were interviewed by nurses, clinically examined by physicians, and assessed by psychologists. The nurses measured blood pressure, height, and weight, collected blood samples, and ... 1991 1993
3 KP - KP12 - Phase IV All participants were interviewed by nurses, clinically examined by physicians, and assessed by psychologists. The nurses measured blood pressure, height, and weight, collected blood samples, and ... 1994 1996
4 KP - KP12 - Phase V All participants were interviewed by nurses, clinically examined by physicians, and assessed by psychologists. The nurses measured blood pressure, height, and weight, collected blood samples, and ... 1997 1998
5 KP - KP12 - Phase VI All participants were interviewed by nurses, clinically examined by physicians, and assessed by psychologists. The nurses measured blood pressure, height, and weight, collected blood samples, and ... 1999 2000
Selection Criteria
Minimum age
90
Newborns
Twins
Countries
  • Sweden
Territory

St-Göran parish

Ethnic Origin
Health Status

Recruitment

Sources of recruitment
  • General population
General Population
  • Selected sample

Number of Participants

Number of Participants
323
Number of Participants with Biological Samples
323
Supplementary Information about selection criteria

Phase III: 323 participants

Phase IV: 156 participants

Phase V: 71 participants

Phase VI: 29 participants

Data Collection Events
# Name Description Start End
0 KP - StGoran - Phase III All participants were interviewed by nurses, clinically examined by physicians, and assessed by psychologists. The nurses measured blood pressure, height, and weight, collected blood samples, and ... 1991 1993
1 KP - StGoran - Phase IV All participants were interviewed by nurses, clinically examined by physicians, and assessed by psychologists. The nurses measured blood pressure, height, and weight, collected blood samples, and ... 1994 1996
2 KP - StGoran - Phase V All participants were interviewed by nurses, clinically examined by physicians, and assessed by psychologists. The nurses measured blood pressure, height, and weight, collected blood samples, and ... 1997 1998
3 KP - StGoran - Phase VI All participants were interviewed by nurses, clinically examined by physicians, and assessed by psychologists. The nurses measured blood pressure, height, and weight, collected blood samples, and ... 1999 2000
Selection Criteria
Minimum age
75
Newborns
Twins
Countries
  • Sweden
Territory
Kungsholmen
Ethnic Origin
Health Status

Recruitment

Sources of recruitment
  • General population
General Population
  • Selected sample

Number of Participants

Number of Participants
123
Number of Participants with Biological Samples
123
Supplementary Information about selection criteria

Phase III: 123 participants

Phase IV: 88 participants

Phase V: 71 participants

Phase VI: 53 participants

Data Collection Events
# Name Description Start End
0 KP - KP15 - Phase III All participants were interviewed by nurses, clinically examined by physicians, and assessed by psychologists. The nurses measured blood pressure, height, and weight, collected blood samples, and ... 1991 1993
1 KP - KP15 - Phase IV All participants were interviewed by nurses, clinically examined by physicians, and assessed by psychologists. The nurses measured blood pressure, height, and weight, collected blood samples, and ... 1994 1996
2 KP - KP15 - Phase V All participants were interviewed by nurses, clinically examined by physicians, and assessed by psychologists. The nurses measured blood pressure, height, and weight, collected blood samples, and ... 1997 1998
3 KP - KP15 - Phase VI All participants were interviewed by nurses, clinically examined by physicians, and assessed by psychologists. The nurses measured blood pressure, height, and weight, collected blood samples, and ... 1999 2000

Classifications

Socio-demographic and economic characteristics
Lifestyle and behaviours
Birth, pregnancy and reproductive health history
Perception of health, quality of life, development and functional limitations
Diseases
Symptoms and signs
Medication and supplements
Non-pharmacological interventions
Health and community care services utilization
Death
Physical measures and assessments
Laboratory measures
Cognition, personality and psychological measures and assessments
Life events, life plans, beliefs and values
Preschool, school and work life
Social environment and relationships
Physical environment
Administrative information
Cognitive functioning
Personality
Psychological distress and emotions
Other psychological measures and assessments
Perception of health
Quality of life
Life course development
Functional limitations
Other perception of health, quality of life and functional limitation-related information

Socio-demographic and economic characteristics

Age/birthdate
Sex/gender
Marital/partner status
Family and household structure
Education
Residence
Birthplace
Citizenship and immigrant status
Labour force and retirement

Lifestyle and behaviours

Tobacco
Alcohol
Nutrition
Transportation
Sleep
Leisure activities
Misbehaviour and criminality

Birth, pregnancy and reproductive health history

Pregnancy, delivery and birth

Perception of health, quality of life, development and functional limitations

Perception of health
Quality of life
Functional limitations
Use of assistive devices

Diseases

Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
Neoplasms (C00-D48)
Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (D50-D89)
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E90)
Mental and behavioural disorders (F00-F99)
Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99)
Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59)
Diseases of the ear and mastoid process (H60-H95)
Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99)
Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J99)
Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K93)
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99)
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99)
Diseases of the genitourinary system (N00-N99)
Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T98)
Diseases without precise specification or falling into multiple categories

Symptoms and signs

Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems (R00-R09)
Symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen (R10-R19)
Symptoms and signs involving the skin and subcutaneous tissue (R20-R23)
Symptoms and signs involving the urinary system (R30-R39)
Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behaviour (R40-R46)
General symptoms and signs (R50-R69)
Symptoms related to multiple categories

Medication and supplements

Medication and supplement intake

Non-pharmacological interventions

Surgical interventions
Other and unspecified non-pharmacological interventions

Health and community care services utilization

Visits to health professionals
Hospitalizations
Community and social care
Other health and community care

Death

Vital status
Cause of death

Physical measures and assessments

Physical characteristics
Anthropometry
Circulation and respiration
Muscles, skeleton and mobility
Sensory and pain
Brain and nerves
Digestion
Other physical measures and assessments

Laboratory measures

Biochemistry

Cognition, personality and psychological measures and assessments

Cognitive functioning
Personality
Psychological distress and emotions
Other psychological measures and assessments

Life events, life plans, beliefs and values

Life events
Beliefs and values

Social environment and relationships

Social network
Social participation
Social support

Physical environment

Housing characteristics
Radiation exposure
Biological exposure

Administrative information

Identifiers
Date and time-related information
Questionnaire and interview-related information
Physical and cognitive measure and biosample-related information
Data and sample collection center-related information
Other administrative information

Cognitive functioning

Buschke-Fuld Selective Reminding Test
Backward Digit Span Task
Cambridge Cognitive Examination
Clock Drawing Test
Draw-A-Person Test
Digit Span Task
Delayed Word Recall
Forward Digit Span Task
Hachinski Ischemic Score
Immediate Free Word Recall Test
Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery (Motor Function)
Letter Fluency Test
Mini-Mental State Examination
Poppelreuter-Ghent's Overlapping Figures Test
Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (Figure Copy)
Trail Making Test
Verbal Fluency
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (Block Design)
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (Coding)
Wechsler Memory Scale (Face recognition)
Word Recognition Test

Psychological distress and emotions

Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale
Positive and Negative Affect Schedule

Quality of life

Life Satisfaction Index Z

Functional limitations

Activities of Daily Living