HELIUS
Healthy Life in an Urban Setting
Description
The HELIUS study is a prospective cohort study on health and healthcare among an urban multi-ethnic population. The aim of the HELIUS study is to gain insight in the biological, psychological and social causes of the unequal burden of disease across ethnic groups, and ultimately enable the improvement of health care and prevention strategies.
General Design
- Type
- Biobank, Cohort study
- Cohort type
- Population cohort
- Data collection type
- Prospective
- Design
- Longitudinal
- Start/End data collection
- 2010 (ongoing)
- Design papers
Population
- Countries
- Netherlands (the)
- Regions
- Amsterdam
- Number of participants
- 24781
- Population age groups
- Adult (18+ years)
- Inclusion criteria
- Age group inclusion criterion
- Ethnicity inclusion criterion
Organisations
Lead organisations
- Amsterdam University Medical CentersNetherlands (the)https://www.amsterdamumc.org
- Amsterdam University Medical CentersNetherlands (the)https://www.amsterdamumc.org
Additional organisations
- GGD Amsterdam
Available Data & Samples
Data categories
- Biological samples
- Survey data
- National registries
- Physiological/Biochemical measurements
- Omics
- Genomics
- Transcriptomics
- Proteomics
- Metabolomics
Sample categories
- Blood
- Blood (whole)
- Blood Buffy Coat
- Fetal blood (Cord blood)
- Plasma
- Serum
- Fluids and Secretions
- Feces
- Mouth swabs
- Nasal swabs
- Urine
- 24h urine
- Urine, first morning
- Urine, random
- Urine, timed
Areas of information
- Socio-demographic and economic characteristics
- Age/birthdate
- Sex/gender
- Twin
- Marital/partner status
- Family and household structure
- Education
- Residence
- Birthplace
- Citizenship and immigrant status
- Ethnicity, race and religion
- Language
- Labour force and retirement
- Job history
- Parental occupation
- Income, possessions, and benefits
- Other socio-demographic and economic characteristics
- Lifestyle and behaviours
- Tobacco
- Alcohol
- Drugs
- Nutrition
- Breastfeeding
- Physical activity
- Transportation
- Personal hygiene
- Sleep
- Sexual behaviours and orientation
- Leisure activities
- Technological devices
- Misbehaviour and criminality
- Other and unspecified lifestyle information
- Birth, pregnancy and reproductive health history
- Puberty, menstruation, menopause and andropause
- Contraception
- Pregnancy, delivery and birth
- Fertility and sexual health
- Other reproductive health-related information
- Perception of health, quality of life, development and functional limitations
- Perception of health
- Quality of life
- Life course development
- Functional limitations
- Use of assistive devices
- Other perception of health, quality of life and functional limitation-related information
- 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 nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R25-R29)
- Symptoms and signs involving the urinary system (R30-R39)
- Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behaviour (R40-R46)
- Symptoms and signs involving speech and voice (R47-R49)
- General symptoms and signs (R50-R69)
- Symptoms related to multiple categories
- Medication and supplements
- Medication and supplement intake
- Chemotherapy interventions
- Posology and protocol of administration
- Other and unspecified 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
- Other end of life or death-related information
- Physical measures and assessments
- Physical characteristics
- Anthropometry
- Circulation and respiration
- Muscles, skeleton and mobility
- Sensory and pain
- Brain and nerves
- Skin and subcutaneous tissue
- Speech and voice
- Digestion
- Reproduction
- Other physical measures and assessments
- Laboratory measures
- Hematology
- Biochemistry
- Microbiology
- Virology
- Immunology
- Toxicology
- Histology
- Genomics
- Other laboratory measures
- Cognition, personality and psychological measures and assessments
- Cognitive functioning
- Personality
- Psychological distress and emotions
- Other psychological measures and assessments
- Social environment and relationships
- Social network
- Social participation
- Social support
- Parenting and familial environment
- Other social environment characteristics
Collection events
List of collection events defined for this resource
| Name | Description | Participants | Start end year | |
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Networks
Part of networks
Publications
Access conditions
The data access conditions can be found in the collaboration policy on the HELIUS website
- Data access conditions
- health or medical or biomedical research
- Data use conditions
- research specific restrictions
- publication required
- Data access fee
- true
- Linkage options
- There are several possibilities for linkage with HELIUS data, namely: -GECCO: Environment data based on zip-codes -CBS: Cause of death from statistics Netherlands is linked to HELIUS data. -Vektis and Achmea: Data on incidence of type 2 diabetes from health insurances -GGD: Data on COVID testing, infections, and vaccination uptake from the Municipal Health Service -NKR: Data from the Netherland Cancer Registry