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Greifswald (dpa / mv) - With a broad study in Western Pomerania, researchers want to find out, among other things, what influence pets have on people's health.
It is about the influence that animal husbandry has on the physical and mental health of people, but also about diseases that can be transmitted from animals to people, the University of Greifswald announced on Thursday.
The study is part of the SHIP study (Study of Health in Pomerania / Life and Health in Western Pomerania), one of the world's largest long-term studies on public health, according to university information. Since 1997, adults in Western Pomerania have been regularly examined medically and dentally in order to better understand the connection between risk factors and diseases, it said.
The new study is therefore the third basic study by SHIP and is scheduled to start on May 17th with 4,000 subjects.
Pets are only one aspect of this.
According to the information, the test persons are extensively medically checked over several years.
"With SHIP, scientific knowledge is gained in order to avoid diseases in the future as far as possible or to be able to identify them at an early stage and to alleviate their consequences," said study director Henry Völzke, professor of medicine at Greifswald University Hospital.
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Background to the ship study by UMG Greifswald