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The Stockholm Metropolitan Study (SMS)

The Stockholm Metropolitan Study (SMS) consists of all children born in 1953 and living in the Stockholm metropolitan area in 1963. Register and survey follow-ups were carried out up until 1986 when the project was ended and data de-identified.

RELINK53

RELINK53, created in 2017/2018, is defined as all individuals born in 1953 who lived in Sweden in 1960, 1965, and/or 1968, as well as their ascendant, contemporaneous and descendant family members. RELINK53 contains information collected from a variety of administrative registers.