NCT03934957Recruiting
Hamburg City Health Study - a German Cohort Study
A Single Center, Prospective, Epidemiologic Cohort Study With Emphasis on Imaging to Improve the Identification of Individuals at Risk for Major Chronic Diseases and to Improve Early Diagnosis and Survival
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 2 May 2019 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The Hamburg City Health Study (HCHS) is a large, prospective, long-term, population-based cohort study and a unique research platform and network to obtain substantial knowledge about several risk and prognostic factors in major chronic diseases.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 45000 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 4 Jan 2019
- Start date
- 8 Feb 2016
- Primary completion date
- 31 Dec 2022
- Lead sponsor
- Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
- Diseases
- Obesity, Coronary artery disease, Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT03934957
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Planned participants: 45000
- From 8 Feb 2016 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2022
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Other
- Insufficient knowledge of the German language, in order to understand study documents and computer assisted interview without translation
- Physical or psychological incapability to travel to the study center and to cooperate in the investigations
Who the study is looking for
- Inhabitant of the city of Hamburg at the time of inclusion into the study (Inclusion is time of written consent)
- Age 45 to 74 years
- Personally signed informed consent
Age in the registry: 45 years to 74 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hamburg | Germany | Recruiting |
Related publications
- Associations Between the Brain Care Score and Structural Brain Changes and Cognitive Impairment Using Data From the Hamburg City Health Study.Eur J Neurol · 2026 · PMID 42922092
- CMR-based aortic stiffness parameters in a symptomatic high risk obstructive sleep apnea cohort: results from the population-based Hamburg City Health Study.BMC Cardiovasc Disord · 2026 · PMID 42587278
- Association of periodontitis with reduced kidney function and albuminuria in early chronic kidney disease: a population-based study.Int J Oral Sci · 2026 · PMID 41936582
- Amplified P-wave duration predicts incident atrial fibrillation in the general population: Results from the Hamburg City Health Study.Heart Rhythm O2 · 2026 · PMID 42488147
- Biopsychosocial Correlates of Somatic Symptom Burden in CKD: Results of the Hamburg City Health Study.Kidney360 · 2026 · PMID 41615722
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