Aktuelle KORA-Studien
FF4-Study
The Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg (KORA) surveys are population-based studies (Holle et al., 2005). In survey number 4 (S4) 4261 individuals were examined from 1999 to 2001. A first follow-up (F4) survey was conducted from 2006 to 2008 with 3080 participants from the original S4 study took part in F4. A second follow-up survey (FF4) will take place in 2013/2014.
Selected publications from S4 and F4:
- Marzi C, Huth C, Herder C, Baumert J, Thorand B, Rathmann W, Meisinger C, Wichmann HE, Roden M, Peters A, Grallert H, Koenig W, Illig T. Acute-Phase Serum Amyloid A Protein and Its Implication in the Development of Type 2 Diabetes in the KORA S4/F4 Study. Diabetes Care. 2013 May;36(5):1321-6
- Stöckl D, Döring A, Thorand B, Heier M, Peters A, Lamina C, Kronenberg F, Meisinger C. Reproductive factors and its association with peripheral arterial disease in women aged 52-81 years: The KORA F4 study. Atherosclerosis. 2013 May; 228(1):224-9. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2013.01.035. Epub 2013 Feb 5
- Meisinger C, Strassburger K, Heier M, Thorand B, Baumeister SE, Giani G, et al. Prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes and impaired glucose regulation in 35-59-year-old individuals in Southern Germany: the KORA F4 Study. Diabet Med 2010;27(3):360-2
- Rathmann W, Strassburger K, Heier M, Holle R, Thorand B, Giani G, et al. Incidence of Type 2 diabetes in the elderly German population and the effect of clinical and lifestyle risk factors: KORA S4/F4 cohort study. Diabet Med 2009;26(12):1212-9
- Holle R, Happich M, Lowel H, Wichmann HE (2005) KORA - a research platform for population based health research. Gesundheitswesen 67: S19-25