A recent analysis of the German National Cohort (NAKO) shows that people who experienced trauma such as abuse or neglect during their childhood or adolescence were around twice as likely to develop de...

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To mark its 60th anniversary, the DEGAM Congress on 30 September – 2 October 2026 will be held jointly with three other professional societies for the first time: the German Society for Social Medicin...

From 2 to 6 November 2026, a one-week workshop of YoungNAKO on statistical methods and artificial intelligence (AI) in epidemiological cohort studies will take place at the University of Münster. The ...

Consultation appointments for researchers You can book an appointment for a face-to-face consultation with an expert from the German National Cohort (NAKO). The consultations take place remotely via M...

Joint press release with Medical Center of University Freiburg The German National Cohort (NAKO) reveals a noteworthy number of potentially undiagnosed kidney diseases / One in six participants showed...

INTRODUCTION The Lifestyle for Brain Health (LIBRA) index evaluates modifiable dementia risk, mainly in midlife and older adults. We examined the frequency of LIBRA factors and their individual and .....

Optimising medication use among older people remains a key challenge in an ageing society. A recent analysis based on the German National Cohort (NAKO) systematically examined the incidence of over-pr...

Elena Grune, a researcher at the University of Freiburg and Helmholtz Munich, has been awarded the Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award by the American Heart Association for the best abstract...

This year's Winter School of the YoungNAKO Graduate Programme took place from 17 to 20 February 2026 at the Landhaus Rothenberge of the University of Münster in Wettringen (North Rhine-Westphalia). Te...

How does our environment affect our health? For Asmaa Alselwi, a doctoral student at Helmholtz Munich, this question is central. Her goal is to reveal complex relationships and derive possible courses...

Scientists can submit research proposals to use the entire package of 193,000 serum samples from the baseline examination (2014 to 2019) for health-related research purposes. The applicants are respon...

A recent analysis of the German National Cohort (NAKO) of around 80,000 adults shows that while the majority of NAKO participants kept their mental health stable during the years of the COVID-19 pande...

Genomsequenzierungen der an der NAKO Gesundheitsstudie beteiligten Helmholtz-Zentren eröffnen neue Perspektiven auf Krankheitsentstehung

The German National Cohort (NAKO) contributes its scientific expertise to the National Decade of Post-Infectious Diseases initiated by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR). W...

A research group led by the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) in Mannheim has confirmed for the first time within the German National Cohort (NAKO) an association between cigarette consumption...

His path into research was anything but coincidental. He combines technical expertise from his bachelor's degree in medical information management with health science perspectives from his master's de...

The Graduate Programme is a 20-month training programme for early-career researchers working with data from population-based cohort studies, such as the NAKO Health Study (NAKO). Graduates will be tra...

In November 2025, the Ethics Advisory Board of NAKO e.V. said farewell to Professor Dr Jochen Taupitz from the University of Mannheim after many years of dedicated service on the board. Professor Dr R...

Sehajpreet is a doctoral researcher in radiation epidemiology. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Public Health and her Master’s in Epidemiology at the University of Bremen Which aspects are most ...

Langlebigkeit ist zum Trendbegriff geworden. Doch die Wissenschaft versteht etwas völlig anderes unter dem Begriff "Longevity": Den Forschenden geht es nicht um Faltenfreiheit, einen schönen Körper un...

At the start of the pilot for a Trusted Research Environment (TRE), NAKO e.V. is inviting research companies to submit applications for the use of NAKO data for scientific purposes. For the first time...

Health trajectories in a rapidly changing world MUNICH Sep 3—4 2026 International NAKO CONFERENCE 2026 NAKO Conference 2026 Days to go Dear colleagues, We are very pleased to announce the date of the ...

Ein internationales Forschungsteam hat das Bewegungsverhalten von Studienteilnehmenden aus Berliner Innenstadtbezirken und Singapur unter die Lupe genommen. In ihre Analysen flossen gemessene und selb...

Scientists from Germany and abroad can now for the first time apply for data from the German National Cohort (NAKO) from the baseline and the first re-examination, the 5-year follow-up. NAKO is the la...

What makes us sick? What keeps us healthy? And when should we take preventive measures? Thanks to major cohort studies like the NAKO Health Study

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have investigated the relationship between muscle quality and chronic back pain using whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and artificial intelligence (AI) methods. The analysis of MRI data from approximately 30,000 participants in the German National Cohort (NAKO) showed that a higher proportion…

Researchers at the Helmholtz Munich and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich have investigated a possible association between exposure to road traffic noise and the risk of metabolic disease...

World MS Day on 30 May 2025 Scientists of the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) and Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) have investigated potential risk factors for multiple sclerosi...