Method folder

Index. Description of the methods used (in brackets the number of the description within the folder) 

1.Background
- Biobank filter (1.0)
- Samples and subpopulations(3.0)

2.Municipality data
- Type of municipality, urban area degree, strata, municipality (3.4)
- Principal abode/Place of birth (3.4) 
- Stratum/Identification numbers/Time point of study (3.5)
- Municipality/Stratum: background information (3.6)
- Population centralization classification (3.7)

2.Questionnaires and interviews
2.1 Health interview and basic health questionnaire
- Age (3.1)
- Occupation (3.2)
- Social class (3.3)
- Education (3.8)
- Incomes (3.9)
- Smoking (3.10)
- Alchol consumption (3.11)
- Dental health (3.12)
- Disease classification (ICD8), completing guidelines (3.13)
- Medication classification (3.14)
- Exercise, energy consumption (MET) (3.15)
2.2. Dietary questionnaire (3.26)
2.3. Mental health 
- PSE (3.34)
- Somatisation and hypocondria scales (3.36)
- JAS (A ja B type personality) (3.37)

3. Physical measurements
3.1. Cardiovascular disease symptom interview and ECG
- Symptom classification (3.16)
- Cardivascular disease classification (3.17)
- Brief ECG-category (3.18)
- Respiratory symptom classification (3.19)
- ECG Minnesota-classification (3.20)
3.2. Spirometry (3.21)
3.3. Lower limb blood pressure (3.24)
3.4 Chest X-ray
- Heart volume (radiologists 1 and 2) (3.32)

4.Laboratory determinations
- Length of fasting (3.23)
- S-Waaler-Rose (3.38)