Cohort Profile: The Swiss National Cohort--a longitudinal study of 6.8 million people

Impact of different domains of physical activity on cause-specific mortality: A longitudinal study

“…Mortality follow-up data were obtained up to 2008 by anonymous record linkage with data from the Swiss National Cohort (SNC) (Bopp et al, 2010;Bopp et al, 2012;Bopp et al, 2009). Approval (Nr.…”

Inverse association between circulating vitamin D and mortality – Dependent on sex and cause of death?

“…13 Thus, the authors hypothesized that vitamin D might rather promote than initiate chronic diseases 14 such as cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD) [7]. Using data of the Swiss MONICA study, we aimed 15 at analyzing the association between circulating levels of 25- Swiss National Cohort (SNC [8,9]) included 3404 participants, from which we derived mortality 1 information up to December 31, 2008. Of these participants, 188 had to be excluded because they 2 did not provide valid 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) measurements, and 25 were excluded from the 3 analysis due to missing information on one or more other relevant variables, leading to a sample of 4 3191 individuals.…”

Le défi de la recherche sur les soins en Suisse avec des données de routine

“…date de naissance, lieu de domicile, sexe, état civil, nationalité pour relier les données de recensement et les données de mortalité du Swiss National Cohort [3]). Si le couplage ne peut pas se faire au niveau de l'individu, les données peuvent être reliées entre elles selon des informations géogra-phiques.…”