Data Dictionary: Cohort of Swedish men (COSM)

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General Health
How is your health?
How is your memory?
How is your physical condition?
How is your appetite?
How is your mood?
How is your energy?
Have you or have you had high blood pressure?
Have you or have you had high cholesterol?
Have you or have you had angina?
Have you or have you had intermittent claudication?
Have you or have you had heart failure?
Have you or have you had dizziness?
Have you or have you had tinnitus?
Have you or have you had osteoporosis?
Have you or have you had an allergy?
Have you or have you had asthma?
Have you or have you had COPD (chronic lung disease)?
Have you or have you had chronic bronchitis?
Have you or have you had hay fever?
Have you or have you had pollen allergy?
Have you or have you had impotence?
Have you or have you had hemorrhoids?
Have you or have you had migraine?
Have you or have you had joint pain?
Have you or have you had rheumatoid arthritis?
Have you or have you had Parkinson’s disease?
Have you or have you had MS (multiple sclerosis)?
Have you or have you had psoriasis?
Have you or have you had eczema?
Have you or have you had atopic eczema (as a child)?
Have you or have you had kidney stones?
Have you or have you had gallstones?
Have you or have you had gastritis?
Have you or have you had ulcerative colitis?
Have you or have you had IBS / irritable bowel?
Have you or have you had Crohn’s disease?
Have you or have you had depression?
Have you or have you had glaucoma?
Do you have diabetes? (age at which it was diagnosed and treatment used)
If you do not take blood pressure medicine, has your blood pressure been checked in the last 3 years? (if yes, was it low, normal or elevated?)
What are your body measurements? (height, weight, waist and hip circumference)
How many doctor visits have you had in the past 12 months?
What is your view of life? (Positive or negative)

Dental Health
Do you have all of your teeth (not including wisdom teeth)?
Do you have pulled out / lost teeth (besides wisdom teeth) in adulthood?
Do you have whole or partial dentures (not including bridge or implant)?
Do you have bleeding of the gums when you brush your teeth?
Do you have periodontal disease / periodontitis?
Do you have problems with dry mouth?
Do you have problems chewing?

Aches and pains
During the past 12 months have you had at work, or during chores at home, pain in the back
During the past 12 months have you had at work, or during chores at home, pain in the shoulders
During the past 12 months have you had at work, or during chores at home, pain in the neck
During the past 12 months have you had pain for 3 months or longer in knee / knees
During the past 12 months have you had pain for 3 months or longer in hips
In your life, have you ever undergone torn cartilage
In your life, have you ever undergone ligament damage in the knee
In your life, have you ever undergone artificial joint in the knee
In your life, have you ever undergone artificial joint in the hip

Medicines
Do you regularly or intermittently use cortisone in tablet form or inhalation
Do you regularly or intermittently use Magnecyl, Bamyl, Treo, Aspirin, Albyl, Trombyl
Do you regularly or intermittently use Alvedon, Panodil, Reliv, Citodon
Do you regularly or intermittently use Ipren, Diklofenak, Voltaren, Ibumetin, Naproxen
Have you used anitbiotics during the last 10 years?

Sight, hearing and balance
Have you had cataract surgery?
Do you use glasses? (If yes, at what age did you start wearing glasses?)
Do you use a hearing aid? (If yes, at which age did you start using a hearing aid?)
Do you have a good sense of taste? (If no, at which age did you lose your sense of taste?)
Do you have good balance? (If no, at which age did your balance become impaired?)
Have you had a fall during the past 12 months? (If yes, how many times?)

Sleep habits
How much sleep do you need per day?
How long do you sleep per night on average?
What time do you usually fall asleep?
What time do you usually wake?
Do you regularly take a nap? (During which time interval?)
How do you find that you sleep on the whole?
How often have you had difficulty falling asleep in the past 3 months?
How often have you had repeatedly waking up with difficulty falling asleep in the past 3 months?
How often have you had premature awakening in the past 3 months?
How often have you had disturbed / restless sleep in the past 3 months?
How often have you had sleep apnea / apnea in the past 3 months?
How often have you had disturbing snoring in the past 3 months?
During your working life, have you had working hours that required you to work at night at least a few times per month?

Toilet habits
During the last month, how often have you felt like you cannot empty your bladder?
During the last month, how many times do you visit the toilet within 2 hours of going?
During the last month, how often is your urine intermittent instead of continuous?
During the last month, how often is it hard to hold it in when you need to urinate?
During the last month, how often do you have a weak urinary stream?
During the last month, how often must you apply pressure to urinate?
How often do you usually urinate at night?
Have you had a urinary tract infection / urinary retention?
If you had to live with urination the way it is today how would you feel?
Do you have a bowel movement every day?
Do you have a bowel movement several times a day?
How often do you experience difficulty with bowel movements?
Do you / have you had fecal leakage? (how many times per week?)

Your family's health
Have any of your parents or siblings had prostate cancer?
Have any of your parents or siblings had breast cancer?
Have any of your parents or siblings had colon cancer?
Have any of your parents or siblings had other cancer?
Have any of your parents or siblings had rheumatoid arthritis?
Have any of your parents or siblings had psoriasis?
Have any of your parents or siblings had diabetes?
Have any of your parents or siblings had high blood pressure?
Have any of your parents or siblings had myocardial infarction before 60?
What age did your parents live to?

Stress
I have never experienced stress
I have experienced a stressful period
I have experienced a stressful period in the past 5 years
I have experienced several periods of stress in the past 5 years
I have experienced constant stress in the past year
I have experienced constant stress in the past 5 years
I have had many long periods of stress in my life
How often do you feel very strong anger?

How are you feeling?
During the last week, how often have you felt those feelings:
I have felt able to cope with serious problems or major changes in my life
I have felt calm and relaxed
I have felt energetic, active and enterprising
On waking, I felt fresh and rested
I have felt happy or satisfied and pleased with my personal life
I have felt sad and down
I am satisfied with my life
I live the kind of life I want to live
I have been eager to get on with the day’s work or make new decisions
I have felt that life is full of interesting things

Family, friends and acquaintances
How many people, with the same interests as you, do you know and have contact with? Both at work and in your leisure time
How many people, that you know well, do you meet or talk with during a normal week? Do not count those that you run into unexpectedly.
How many friends do you have that can come to your home anytime and feel at home? They would not care if it was untidy or if you were about to eat. Do not count close relatives.
How many are there, in your family or among your friends who you can talk openly with?
How many people are there in your environment who you can easily ask for things? People who know you so well that you can borrow tools or kitchen things?
Apart from those at home, how many are there that you can turn to if you are in difficulty? Someone who you can easily meet and who you trust and can really help you when you are experiencing difficulties?

Other issues
What is your current employment?
Where do you live now?
Do you have pets (e.g. dog or cat) at home?
Are you active in a club?
Have you been helped by someone to complete the survey?

Physical activity and exercise
During the past year, how much time did you spend on average on these activities:
Walking/cycling
Daily occupation/work
Home/household work
Watching TV/reading
Exercise
How far can you walk outdoors?
Do you usually perform any physical activity (that makes you short of breath) for more than two hours per week?

Sun habits
Do you travel to sunny resorts during winter time?
How does your skin react when you are in the sun?
When it is sunny, do you prefer exposure to the sun or do you look for the shade?
Do you use sunblock?

Eating habits
Which meals do you usually eat?
On average, how often do you eat a cooked meal?
On average, how often do you eat meals outside the home?
On average, how often do you eat frozen meals?
On average, how often do you eat canned food?
On average, how often do you eat ready-made food?
On average, how often do you eat fish?
On average, how often do you eat meat?
How big are your portion sizes?
What is your main type of diet? (mixed/vegetarian/vegan)
Do you exclude/avoid anything in your diet? (gluten/milk protein/lactose/nuts/other)
During childhood, did you eat more sweets (such as cakes, cookies, sweets, puddings, fruit fool or sauce) compared to your peers?
How often did you eat these sweets?

Dietary habits in the last year
How much do you usually drink/eat of the following:
Milk, skimmed (<0.5% fat)
Milk, semi-skimmed (1.5% fat)
Milk, whole (3% fat)
Fruit yoghurt/sour milk
Yoghurt/sour milk, low-fat
(<0.5% fat)
Sour milk, reduced fat (1.5% fat)
Sour milk/yoghurt (3% fat)
Water (including mineral)
Coca Cola/Pepsi, light
Coca Cola/Pepsi
Other soft drinks/soda, light
Other soft drinks/soda
Green tea
Herbal tea/ rooibos tea
Tea (black)
Coffee (filtered)
Coffee (unfiltered/other coffee)
Sugar
Honey
Cottage cheese/quark
Cream cheese (low-fat)
Cream cheese
Hard cheese (low-fat)
Hard cheese
Dessert cheese
Liver paté (low-fat)
Liver paté
Crispbread
White bread/loaf
Fibre enriched bread
Granary/wholemeal bread
Do you usually have milk in your coffee or tea?
On average, how often do you eat each of the following:
Oatmeal/rye porridge
Other porridge/gruel
Müesli
Breakfast cereals
Bran of wheat or oats
Linseed
Sesame seeds
CEREALS
Sunflower/pumpkin seeds, etc.
Wholemeal macaroni/spaghetti
Spaghetti/macaroni/pasta
Pancakes/crepes
Couscous/bulgur
Wholegrain rice
Other rice
Minced meat (meatballs,
hamburger, mincemeat sauce)
Pork (steak/casserole)
Beef/veal (steak/casserole)
Bacon
Other meat
Lean sausage
Balogna sausage/Falukorv
Other sausage
Blood pudding/sausage
Liver/kidney
Sausage toppings (e.g. salami)
Meat toppings (e.g. ham/turkey)
Smoked fish
Herring/mackerel
Salmon
Cod/saithe/plaice/grenadier
Tuna
Pike/perch/bass
Fish fingers
Other fish
Roe (e.g. Lump fish)
Caviar (e.g. Swedish Kalles)
Shellfish (e.g. shrimp, crayfish etc.)
Chicken/other poultry
Eggs/omelette
Boiled potatoes
Fried potatoes
Baked/mashed potatoes
French fries
Carrots
Beetroots
Lettuce/iceberg lettuce
Cabbage (white, red, Chinese)
Cauliflower
Broccoli/brussels sprouts
Tomato/tomato juice
Peppers
Spinach
Green peas
Onion
Garlic
Leek
Mixed frozen vegetables
Other vegetables
Pea soup
Beans/lentils/chick peas
Avocado
Olives
Sweetcorn
Orange/citrus fruits
Orange/grapefruit juice
Apple/Pears
Banana
Other fruit
Berries (fresh or frozen)
Lingonberry jam
Other jam
Fruit fool/soups
Prunes (incl. juice)
Raisins
Apricots/other dried fruit
Pastries
Biscuits/wafers/rusks
Gateau/confections/delicacies
Chocolate
Sweets (not chocolate)
Ice-cream
Chips/popcorn/cheese puffs
Peanuts
Other nuts/almonds
Salad dressing (reduced fat/fat free)
Salad dressing
Mayonnaise (reduced fat/fat free)
Mayonnaise
Crème fraîche (reduced fat/fat free)
Crème fraîche
Double cream
Single cream, sour cream
Yoghurt for cooking (8-10% fat)
Pizza
Ketchup
Fresh herbs
Dried herbs
Cinnamon
Pepper
Table salt
Do you normally use butter in cooking?
Do you normally use household margarine in cooking?
Do you normally use liquid margarine in cooking?
Do you normally use rapeseed/canola oil in cooking?
Do you normally use Bregott (butter/margarine) in cooking?
Do you normally use liquid butter in cooking?
Do you normally use olive oil in cooking?
Do you normally use corn or sunflower oil in cooking?
Do you normally use olive oil in homemade dressing?
Do you normally use corn or sunflower oil in homemade dressing?
Do you normally use rapeseed/canola oil in homemade dressing?
Do you normally use other oil in homemade dressing?
Do you normally use butter (80% fat) in bread spreads?
Do you normally use margarine (80% fat) in bread spreads?
Do you normally use Becel (margarine) in bread spreads?
Do you normally use Bregott (butter/margarine) in bread spreads?
Do you normally use margarine (40% fat) in bread spreads?
Do you normally use oil in bread spreads?
How many slices of bread with butter/margarine do you usually eat per day or per week?
How much butter/margarine do you usually spread on your bread?
How often do you usually eat sausage/steak/pork chop?
How often do you usually eat fish fried in a pan?
How often do you usually eat chicken/fillets/casserole?
How often do you usually eat grilled/oven-baked chicken?
How often do you usually eat gravy?
To what degree of browning do you usually fry your food?

Dietary supplements and medicine
Do you take vitamins, minerals or any other supplements?
How often and for how many years have you consumed these dietary supplements:
Multivitamins with minerals
Multivitamins without minerals
Vitamin B complex
Vitamin B12
Vitamin B6
Folic acid
Vitamin C
Vitamin E
Beta-carotene
Magnesium
Calcium
Vitamin D
Iron
Zinc
Selenium
Fish oil
Linseed oil
Live bacterial culture: Verum,
Actimel, ProViva, Cultura
How often and for how many years have you consumed these medicines:
Cortisone in tablet form or
inhalation
Alvedon, Panodil, Reliv,
Citodon, Panocod
Ipren, Diklofenak, Voltaren,
Ibumetin, Naproxen
Magnecyl, Bambyl, Treo,
Aspirin, Albyl, Trombyl
Sleeping medication
Mark if you have taken any of the following:
Ginseng/Gerimax
St. John’s wort
Curbisin/Sabamin
Intestinal regulators
Valerina Night/Forte
Garlic tablets
Yeast preparation
Arctic root
Ginkgo Biloba
Fiber supplement
Remifemin
Echinacea/ Kan Jang/ Esberitox
Q10
Chromium
Tone
Cernitol
Litozin

Alcohol
How often you usually drink alcohol
How many times per week/month do you usually drink these:
Beer, 2.25% alcohol
Beer, up to 3.5% alcohol
Beer, over 3.5% alcohol
Red wine
White wine
Liqueur/sherry/fortified wines
Spirits
On each occasion, how much do you usually drink of the following?
Beer
Wine
Liqueur
Spirit

Tobacco
Have you smoked cigarettes regularly?
Inform the number of cigarettes smoked per day at different ages (51-60 yr/61-70 yr/71-80 yr/ 81- yr/ This year)
Have you used snuff regularly?
Inform the portions of snuff per day at different ages (51-60 yr/61-70 yr/71-80 yr/ 81- yr/ This year)

Outdoor activities
How many hours/week are you outdoors during spring and summer?
How many hours/week are you outdoors during autumn and winter?