TY  - JOUR
AU  - Rach, Stefan
AU  - Sand, Matthias
AU  - Reineke, Achim
AU  - Becher, Heiko
AU  - Greiser, Karin Halina
AU  - Wolf, Kathrin
AU  - Wirkner, Kerstin
AU  - Schmidt, Carsten Oliver
AU  - Schipf, Sabine
AU  - Jöckel, Karl-Heinz
AU  - Krist, Lilian
AU  - Ahrens, Wolfgang
AU  - Brenner, Hermann
AU  - Castell, Stefanie
AU  - Gastell, Sylvia
AU  - Harth, Volker
AU  - Holleczek, Bernd
AU  - Ittermann, Till
AU  - Janisch-Fabian, Stefan
AU  - Karch, André
AU  - Keil, Thomas
AU  - Klett-Tammen, Carolina J
AU  - Kluttig, Alexander
AU  - Kuß, Oliver
AU  - Leitzmann, Michael
AU  - Lieb, Wolfgang
AU  - Meinke-Franze, Claudia
AU  - Michels, Karin B
AU  - Mikolajczyk, Rafael
AU  - Moreno Velásquez, Ilais
AU  - Obi, Nadia
AU  - Övermöhle, Cara
AU  - Peters, Annette
AU  - Pischon, Tobias
AU  - Rospleszcz, Susanne
AU  - Schmidt, Börge
AU  - Schulze, Matthias B
AU  - Stang, Andreas
AU  - Teismann, Henning
AU  - Töpfer, Christine
AU  - Wolff, Robert
AU  - Günther, Kathrin
TI  - The baseline examinations of the German National Cohort (NAKO): recruitment protocol, response, and weighting.
JO  - European journal of epidemiology
VL  - 40
IS  - 4
SN  - 0393-2990
CY  - [Cham]
PB  - Springer Nature Switzerland AG
M1  - DKFZ-2025-00847
SP  - 475-489
PY  - 2025
N1  - 2025 Apr;40(4):475-489
AB  - The German National Cohort (NAKO) is the largest population-based epidemiologic cohort study in Germany and investigates the causes of the most common chronic diseases. Between 2014 and 2019, a total of 1.3 million residents aged 20-69 years from 16 German regions were randomly selected from the general population and invited to participate following a highly standardized recruitment protocol. The overall response was 15.6
KW  - Cohort studies (Other)
KW  - Correction weights (Other)
KW  - Epidemiology (Other)
KW  - Nonresponse (Other)
KW  - Participation (Other)
KW  - Population-based (Other)
KW  - Response (Other)
KW  - Sample design (Other)
KW  - Survey weights (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:40259125
DO  - DOI:10.1007/s10654-025-01219-8
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/300633
ER  -