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General description
The Women's Lifestyle and Health (WLH) study, initiated in 1991 and followed up in 2003, focuses on understanding the impact of lifestyle factors on the health of women in Sweden. This cohort includes detailed data on diet, physical activity, reproductive history, and other lifestyle behaviors. The 2003 dataset provides updated information, aiding research into disease prevention, particularly cancer and cardiovascular diseases, and supports studies on the influence of lifestyle choices on women's long-term health outcomes.
Benefit and categories
Benefits
- Comparative Studies: Enables comparisons with other cohorts and populations, contributing to global health research on women's health.
- Longitudinal Analysis: Supports the study of long-term health outcomes and the development of chronic diseases in women.
- Risk Factor Identification: Allows for identifying and studying potential risk factors associated with cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and other chronic conditions in women.
- Public Health Interventions: Facilitates the design and evaluation of public health interventions aimed at improving women's lifestyle behaviors.
- Comprehensive Lifestyle Data: Provides detailed data on dietary habits, physical activity, reproductive history, and other lifestyle factors, enabling thorough analysis of their impact on women's health.
Categories
- Health Status: Self-reported health, chronic conditions, and other health-related data.
- Dietary Habits: Detailed information on food intake and dietary patterns.
- Physical Activity: Data on frequency, duration, and types of physical activity.
- Lifestyle Behaviors: Data on smoking, alcohol consumption, and other lifestyle factors.
- Reproductive History: Information on pregnancies, menstrual history, and use of contraceptives.
- Socio-Demographic Data: Age, education, income, and other demographic variables.
Limitations
- Self-Reported Data: Data may be subject to reporting bias due to self-reporting by participants.
- Population Specificity: Findings may be specific to Swedish women and not generalizable to other populations.
- Data Collection Variability: Changes in data collection methods over time may affect data consistency.
Related publications
- Cohort profile: the Swedish Women's Lifestyle and Health cohort
- Prospective Study of Dietary Phytoestrogen Intake and the Risk of Colorectal Cancer
- Alcohol consumption over time and mortality in the Swedish Women's Lifestyle and Health cohort
- The association between alcohol consumption and mortality: the Swedish women’s lifestyle and health study
Data access
Data from the WLH-2003 dataset is available to researchers upon request.
Detailed information on how to [Access the Data]https://snd.gu.se/sv/catalogue/dataset/ext0153-2) can be found on the Karolinska Institutet website