Already more than 65,000 volunteers have been included from the 200,000 expected and 41 research projects have begun.

Two years after its launch, the ‘Constances’ cohort is gathering health related data on more than 65,000 volunteers aged from 18 to 69 years who are affiliated to the general social security system and have been selected at random. Each volunteer gets a health check at a (National) Health Insurance Health Centre (CES) and fills in annual questionnaires. They accept that data relating to them, such as health care consumption, hospitalisation or their socio-professional status may be monitored by researchers from the Constances cohort. Eighteen CESs are involved in 17 French departments. Constances is jointly run by Inserm, the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, the (National) Health Insurance Scheme and the Pension Insurance Scheme, with the support of the General Directorate of Health.

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