Overview of ongoing cohort and dietary studies in the Arctic

• Published in: International Journal of Circumpolar Health
• Main Authors: Pál Weihe, Peter Bjerregaard, Eva Bonefeld-Jørgensen, Alexey Dudarev, Jónrit Halling, Solrunn Hansen, Gina Muckle, Therese Nøst, Jon Øyvind Odland, Maria Skaalum Petersen, Arja Rautio, Anna Sofía Veyhe, Maria Wennberg, Ingvar Bergdahl
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2016
• Subjects: Cohorts; Diet; Arctic; Norway; Finland; Sweden; Russia; Faroes; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Faroe Islands; Circumpolar Health; Iceland; International Journal of Circumpolar Health; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v75.33803; https://doaj.org/article/4e0946ce3e8541b284aedc9029665631

This article gives an overview of the ongoing cohort and dietary studies underlying the assessment of population health in the Arctic. The emphasis here is on a description of the material, methods and results or preliminary results for each study. Detailed exposure information is available in an article in this journal, whereas another paper describes the effects associated with contaminant exposure in the Arctic. The cohort descriptions have been arranged geographically, beginning in Norway and moving east to Finland, Sweden, Russia and the other Arctic countries and ultimately to the Faroe Islands. No cohort studies have been reported for Alaska or Iceland.