Cohorts and subcohorts in SIMPLER
In the left menu you find more detailed infromation on each cohort and their variables:
- SMC, Swedish Mammography Cohort
- COSM, Cohort of Swedish Men
- SMCC, Swedish Mammography Cohort Clinical
- COSMC, Cohort of Swedish Men Clinical
SMC and COSM are based on food frequency quastionaires including questions on health and life style. The clinical cohorts are subcohorts of SMC and COSM with clinical data and biological samples.
A description of the cohorts is publised by Harris et al. in 2013, The Swedish mammography cohort and the cohort of Swedish men: study design and characteristics of two population-based longitudinal cohorts.
Number of cases of death and different diseases after cohort entry:
| SMC, 1987-2017 | COSM, 1997-2017 | SUM | |
| Death | 25766 | 18558 | 44324 |
| Cancer | 14442 | 11813 | 26255 |
| CVD | 39373 | 30827 | 70200 |
| IHD | 11959 | 13306 | 25265 |
| Ami | 6676 | 8097 | 14773 |
| Stroke | 8725 | 7210 | 15935 |
| Heart failure | 10435 | 8166 | 18601 |
| Diabetes | 9689 | 8461 | 18150 |
| Fracture, all | 22959 | 11609 | 34568 |
| Hip fracture | 7082 | 2642 | 9724 |
| Cataract extraction | 16656 | 9464 | 26120 |