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Møller FT, Junker TG, Kold Sørensen K, Eves C, Wohlfahrt J, Dillner J, Torp-Pedersen C, Wilkowski B, Chong S, Pers TH, Yakimov V, Müller H, Ethelberg S, Melbye M. Assessing household lifestyle exposures from consumer purchases, the My Purchases cohort. Sci Rep 2023; 13:21601. [PMID: 38062070 PMCID: PMC10703931 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-47534-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 11/14/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023] Open
Abstract
Consumer purchase data (CPD) is a promising instrument to assess the impact of purchases on health, but is limited by the need for manual scanning, a lack of access to data from multiple retailers, and limited information on product data and health outcomes. Here we describe the My Purchases cohort, a web-app enabled, prospective collection of CPD, covering several large retail chains in Denmark, that enables linkage to health outcomes. The cohort included 459 participants as of July 03, 2023. Up to eight years of CPD have been collected, with 2,225,010 products purchased, comprising 223,440 unique products. We matched 88.5% of all products by product name or item number to one generic food database and three product databases. Combined, the databases enable analysis of key exposures such as nutrients, ingredients, or additives. We found that increasing the number of retailers that provide CPD for each consumer improved the stability of individual CPD profiles and when we compared kilojoule information from generic and specific product matches, we found a median modified relative difference of 0.23. Combined with extensive product databases and health outcomes, CPD could provide the basis for extensive investigations of how what we buy affects our health.
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Affiliation(s)
- Frederik T Møller
- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Kathrine Kold Sørensen
- Department of Cardiology, North Zealand Hospital, Hillerød, Denmark
- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Caroline Eves
- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Jan Wohlfahrt
- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Joakim Dillner
- Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Christian Torp-Pedersen
- Department of Cardiology, North Zealand Hospital, Hillerød, Denmark
- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Bartlomiej Wilkowski
- Department for Digital Infrastructure, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Steven Chong
- Department for Digital Infrastructure, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Tune H Pers
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation, Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Victor Yakimov
- Department for Congenital Disorders, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Heimo Müller
- Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular BioMedicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
| | - Steen Ethelberg
- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Public Health, Global Health Section, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Mads Melbye
- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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