Service: Scapis - Prevention of heart- and lung-diseases

Responsible organisation: six hospitals (Uppsala, Umeå, Linköping, Malmö/Lund, Gothenburg and Stockholm) (Central-Government)

Prevention of heart- and lung-diseases. SCAPIS is the largest population study in Sweden within the cardiovascular and pulmonary system area. It is a world unique project that includes 30,000 patients and involves all six healthcare regions, university hospitals and a number of scientific players. The vision is to be able to individualize risk assessments as well as to prevent and postpone cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases in patients. SCAPIS, Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study, is a population study around cardiovascular, epidemic and genetic research, initiated by Swedish researchers in 2007. A pilot study was conducted in 2012 to ensure that the population study was possible to implement, and in 2014, the major SCAPIS study was initiated. Göran Bergström, professor in cardiovascular research at the Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg, started working on the project in 2008 and is currently the head of the study.

Additional information

Source Open Innovation Regione Lombardia
Web site https://www.scapis.org/about/
Start/end date 2014 -
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