This sub-cohort of EPIC includes all participants who were over 60 years of age at recruitment and is looking at the role of diet on the longevity of elderly Europeans.

The first phase of this project set out to develop a common classification scheme for non-dietary exposure data to serve the purposes of the study and to estimate energy and selected nutrient intake. The development of a databank with comparable nutritional, medical and socio-economic information on Europeans > 60 years of age is underway.

Preliminary statistical analyses are currently being conducted on the Greek EPIC data to ascertain strengths and limitations of the methodological tools before using them in identifying dietary patterns within the EPIC-Elderly cohort.

Further information can be found here.