Lifelines collects health-related data, measurements and biological samples from a population cohort of more than 167.000 participants, including children, adults, and elderly, over a 30-year period.
The Lifelines protocol was approved by the UMCG Medical ethical committee under number 2007/152.
All participants signed an informed consent form.

• Information about the cohort population
• Information about the (timeline of) general assessments
• Information about additional assessments
• Information about the available variables, organized by theme
• Information about the available biosamples
• Information about applying for data & samples
• Information about our data access infrastructures