Norway
HUNT Study
The Nord Trondelag Health Study
Study website: http://www.ntnu.edu/hunt
Organization website: http://www.ntnu.edu/inm/english
Study population size: 120000 participants
Study population: healthy participants, aged 50 – 65 years old
Imaging modality 1: MRI – Brain MRI
Imaging modality 2: Ultrasound – Cardiac, liver.
Key publications:
- Dalen H, et al. Segmental and global longitudinal strain and strain rate based on echocardiography of 1266 healthy individuals: the HUNT study in Norway. Eur J Echocardiogr, 2010.
- Dalen H, et al. Reference values and distribution of conventional echocardiographic Doppler measures and longitudinal tissue Dopple velocities in a population free from cardiovascular disease. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging, 2010.
- Honningsvag LM, et al. Does health differ between participants and non-participants in the MRI-HUNT study, a population based neuroimaging study? The Nord-Trøndelag health studies 1984–2009. BMC Med Imaging, 2012.
NOR-BRAIN Study
Norwegian Brain Study – Mechanisms of Mental Disorders – Bipolar Disorder
Study website: n.a.
Organization website: www.ntnu.edu and www.uio.no
Study population size: 400 participants
Study population: patients with bipolar disorder, aged 18 – 65 years old
Imaging modality 1: MRI – Brain MRI
Key publications: not yet available (imaging started 2011).
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PRODE Study
Prognosis of dementia in the Elderly
Study website: n.a.
Organization website: http://www.aldringoghelse.no/?PageID=2633
Study population size: 340 participants
Study population: psychiatric patients (depression), aged 60 years and older
Imaging modality 1: MRI – Brain MRI
Key publications: not yet available.
TOP Study
Mechanisms of Mental Disorders – Psychosis
Study website: n.a.
Organization website: www.uio.no
Study population size: 1500 participants
Study population: 1000 patients with bipolar disorder / 500 healthy participants, aged 18 – 60 years old
Imaging modality 1: MRI – Brain MRI
Key publications:
- Stefansson H, et al. Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia. Nature, 2008.
- Stefansson H, et al. Common variants conferring risk of schizophrenia. Nature, 2009.
- Rimol LM, et al. Sex-Dependent Association of Common Variants of Microcephaly Genes with Brain Structure. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2010.
- Rimol LM, et al. Cortical thickness and subcortical volumes in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Biol Psychiatry, 2010.
The Tromso Study
Study website: www.tromsostudy.com
Organization website: www.uit.no
Study population size: 40051 participants
Study population: healthy participants, aged 20 – 79 years old
Imaging modality 1: X-ray – DXT at distal forearm
Imaging modality 2: Ultrasound – Carotid artery, cardiac, aorta
Imaging modality 3: MRI – Brain MRI
Imaging modality 4: DEXA – spine, hip
Key publications:
- Bjørnerem A, et al.Circulating sex steroids, sex hormone-binding globulin, and longitudinal changes in forearm bone mineral density in postmenopausal women and men: the Tromsø study. Eur J Endocrinol, 2007.
- Johnsen SH, et al. Relation of common carotid artery lumen diameter to general arterial dilating diathesis and abdominal aortic aneurysms: the Tromsø Study. Am J Epidemiol, 2009.
- Schirmer H, et al. Mitral flow derived Doppler indices of left ventricular diastolic function in a general population; the Tromso study. Eur Heart J, 2000.
- Emaus N, et al. Bone mineral density at the hip in Norwegian women and men–prevalence of osteoporosis depends on chosen references: the Tromsø Study. Eur J Epidemiol, 2009.