“Breathe Sweden” has just been launched, a virtual platform for researchers who collect studies on diseases and disorders of the respiratory tract. The initiative expands the scope of northern collaboration in population studies.
In 2022, the “Andas Sverige” platform was introduced to allow the Swedish-speaking public to locate non-specialist data on ongoing studies on respiratory diseases and disorders. “Breathe Sweden” is now a sister platform in English for collaboration between scholars in the fields of asthma, allergies and respiratory studies.
The paintings on Andas Sverige and Breathe Sweden are led by researcher Bright Nwaru and his organisation at the Krefting Research Centre at the University of Gothenburg, in combination with other researchers such as Helena Backman from Umeå University.
Breathe Sweden provides greater opportunities for mutual understanding and collaboration to solve study questions among researchers in the respiratory disorders and allergies framework. It’s a platform that combines knowledge from several giant population studies, increasing capacity. “
Nwaru provides an example of studies that can be implemented through the Breathe Sweden initiative and possibly lead to tactics to distinguish other subtypes of asthma in adults.
“Based on two of the included giant population studies, it will now be imaginable to investigate how the interaction between heredity and environment is expressed in adults with asthma. Thanks to the huge amount of data, we can implement complicated data-driven strategies. in the table of studies known as phenotyping. This can lead to precision medicine for each subtype of asthma,” says Nwaru.
The researchers’ Breathe Sweden platform is in English.
“Our hope is that we are now creating more for joint projects in asthma, allergy and respiration research, where we can collaborate on giant population studies along northern regional and national borders,” says Helena Backman, a researcher at Umeå University and the Norrbotten region. .
The Breathe Sweden platform has just been introduced and is available on www. breathesweden. com. To date, it has compiled the seven largest studies of the Swedish population on allergies and respiratory health. with the bureaucracy of respiratory disability. Other studios are still invited to sign up on the platform.
The seven at launch are:
WSAS (Western Sweden Asthma Study) – University of Gothenburg
OLIN (pulmonary obstructive in northern Sweden) – Norrbotten Region and Umeå University
CWS (Children of Western Sweden) — University of Gothenburg
BAMSE (Swedish abbreviation for Children, Allergy, Milieu, Stockholm, Epidemiology) — Karolinska Institute
SCIFI-PEARL (Swedish Covid-19 Research for Future Prospects: A Population Epidemiology Approach Using Registry Linking) – University of Gothenburg
SNAR (Swedish National Airway Register) — Norrbotten Region and University of Gothenburg
STOPPA (Swedish double on perinatal features for asthma prevention) – Karolinska Institutet.
The Andas Sverige and Breathe Sweden initiative is a component of STELLAR (Research Platform in Respiratory Epidemiology), which is funded through the Swedish Research Council. The Andas Sverige website provides brief summaries of the studies carried out as a component of the projects. contribution to the platform in a non-specialized way. The online page is intended for the public, study components, funders and other interested components.
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