The Rotterdam Study: 2010 Objectives and Design Update
September 2009
in “
European journal of epidemiology
”
TLDR The Rotterdam Study aims to understand various diseases in older adults.
The Rotterdam Study, initiated in 1990 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, is a large-scale prospective cohort study focusing on various diseases including cardiovascular, endocrine, hepatic, neurological, ophthalmic, psychiatric, and respiratory conditions. By 2008, the study included 14,926 participants aged 45 and older. The study's findings have been extensively documented in nearly 1,000 research articles. This 2009 update provided the study's rationale, design, major findings, and updated objectives and methods.
