Overview
FINRISK is a large Finnish population survey on risk factors on chronic, noncommunicable diseases.The Department of Public Health Solutions coordinates the data analyses, reporting and access to data and samples.
The survey was carried out for 40 years since 1972 every five years using independent, random and representative population samples from different parts of Finland. In 2012, 6424 persons participated.
The FINRISK Study is also known as the North Karelia Project and it was part of the World Health Organization MONICA Project (FINMONICA) in 1982-1992. The over 40 years of research from 1972 is called the National FINRISK Study.
Data from the FINRISK surveys are used for many different research projects and for national health monitoring needs. Recent research activities deal, in addition to cardiovascular diseases and the classical risk factors, also with e.g. asthma and allergy, alcohol, socioeconomic factors and genetic epidemiology.
The FINRISK 1992–2012 collections were transferred to THL Biobank in June 2015.
The National FINRISK Study and Health 2000 Survey were joined to form a new population study, the National FinHealth Study. The first survey was conducted in Spring 2017 in 50 areas.
Demographics
Dataset
Data can be requested through THL biobank (https://thl.fi/en/web/thl-biobank/for-researchers/application-process)
Contact
More information at finriski (at) thl.fi