European Project on Osteoarthritis
Studies
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EPOSA is a collaborative study involving six cohort studies on ageing from six countries from North to South Europe. This initiative studies the personal and societal burden and its determinants of osteoarthritis in the aging European population using data from six population-based cohort studies across Europe.
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General Information
- Year created
- 2010
- Types of cohorts
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- Population cohort
- Countries
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- Germany
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Spain
- United Kingdom
- Sweden
- Setting
- International
- Funding
- This project has received funding from an anonymous funder.
- Criteria of cohort's to be included
- Criteria for selection were a good representation of countries across Europe, different physical and social environments and health care systems. In addition, initially (for the post-harmonisation) a requirement was the existence of a running cohort study on older people
- Health topic
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- Ageing
- Environmental health
- Public health
- Musculoskeletal diseases
- Socio-environmental context
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- NA
Participants
Number of participants
- Total
- 2,941
- With harmonized data
- 1,949
Age range of the samples
- Minimum age
- 65
- Maximum age
- 85
Methodology for harmonization and integration
- Strategy of harmonization
- Ex-ante
- Data processing methods
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- NA
- Type of infrastructure
- Some centrally, other locally
- Integrative data analysis
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- Pooled analyses
- Software
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- SPSS
- Supplementary information
- Total number of participants with harmonized data: Baseline: 2942 (GER: 407, IT: 468, NL:574, SP: 539, SW: 510, UK: 444) Follow-up: 2455 (GER:336, IT: 319, NL: 483, SP: 457, SW:450, UK: 410) Total number of harmonized variables: Baseline: 500 Follow-up: 360 The coordinating centre developed the harmonized dataset in cooperation with the partners. Data dictionary baseline: https://www.eposa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/EPOSACodebook-Baseline.pdf and follow-up: https://www.eposa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/EPOSACodebook-Follow-up.pdf Data request form: https://www.eposa.org/data-requests/ More information: Design paper: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2474/14/138 Outcome paper social isolation: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jgs.16159 Outcome paper falls: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049017220300299?via%3Dihub
Number of cohorts
- Total
- 6
- With harmonized data
- 6
- Will more cohorts be harmonized?
- Number of harmonized variables (max.)
- 500
Access
- Availability of metadata
- Under request
- Availability of individual data
- Under request
Individual Studies
Acronym | Name | Study design | Participants | Countries |
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ActiFE-Ulm | Activity and Function in the Elderly in Ulm (ActiFE-Ulm) | Population cohort | 1,214 | |
Ageing in Peñagrande | Ageing in Peñagrande | Patients' cohort | 814 | |
HCS | The Hertfordshire Cohort Study | Population cohort | 3,000 | |
LASA | The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam | Population cohort | 3,805 | |
STR | The Swedish Twin Registry | Population cohort | 87,000 |