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UK Biobank

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Description

The UK Biobank program is a large health and biomedical database that serves multiple retrospective, observational studies. UK Biobank includes data from over half a million participants between the ages of 40 and 69 from the United Kingdom. UK Biobank contains a combination of health, questionnaire and genetic data that is regularly updated and enriched with new data fields.

Key Information

Dataset Contents
Profile Date February 2024
Data Date Span 1980-Dec-02 to 2022-Oct-31
Patient Count 502,219
Deceased Count 44,498
Recruitment Status Active
Dataset Type Electronic Health Records, Surveys and Questionnaires, Research visit, Wearable Fitness Device, Genomic, Registry
Context Outpatient, Inpatient
Region United Kingdom
Age Restrictions Between age 40 and 69
Access & Availability
Native Data Structure Custom and OMOP
Hosting Hosted by data user
Database File Size 35 GB
Availability Restrictions None
Data Identifiability HIPAA: Identifiable, Common Rule: De-identified

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Dataset Dictionary

Relevant Publications

  • Mayer CS, Fontelo P. Alcohol consumption and its correlation with medical conditions: a UK Biobank study. Front Public Health. 2024 May 22;12:1294492. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1294492. PMID: 38841662; PMCID: PMC11150707.
  • Papez V, Moinat M, Voss EA, Bazakou S, Van Winzum A, Peviani A, Payralbe S, Kallfelz M, Asselbergs FW, Prieto-Alhambra D, Dobson RJB, Denaxas S. Transforming and evaluating the UK Biobank to the OMOP Common Data Model for COVID-19 research and beyond. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2022 Dec 13;30(1):103-111. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocac203. Erratum in: J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2023 Apr 19;30(5):1006. PMID: 36227072; PMCID: PMC9619789.

Last updated Oct 04, 2024