Cohort profile: The Health, Food, Purchases and Lifestyle (SMIL) cohort - a Danish open cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The Health, Food, Purchases and Lifestyle (SMIL) cohort is a prospective open Danish cohort that collects electronic consumer purchase data, which can be linked to Danish nationwide administrative health and social registries. This paper provides an overview of the cohort's baseline characteristics and marginal differences in the monetary percentage spent on food groups by sex, age and hour of the day.

Participants

As of 31 December 2022, the cohort included 11 214 users of a smartphone-based receipt collection application who consented to share their unique identification number for linkage to registries in Denmark. In 2022, the composition of the cohort was as follows: 62% were men while 24% were aged 45-55. The cohort had a median of 63 (IQR 26-116) unique shoppin

SUBMITTER: Sorensen KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10961505 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature