Stock Photo - 12 January 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Greifswald: A signpost hangs at the entrance to the SHIP examination center at Greifswald University Medical Center. Since 1997, adults from Western Pomerania have been regularly examined medically and dentally in the SHIP (Study of Health in Pomerania/Leben und Gesundheit in Vorpommern), which, according to the organizers, is the world's most extensive long-term study. Feldt, an administrative business administrator, is the 10,000th subject to be examined for risk factors and disease progression for studies. Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa. - Greifswald/Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania/Germany