Children are particularly vulnerable to environmental hazards. The ATHLETE project will measure a wide range of environmental exposures (urban, chemical, lifestyle and social risk factors) during pregnancy, childhood, and adolescence. The project will then link this “early-life exposome” to children’s biological responses and cardiometabolic, respiratory, and mental health. The results will help us to better understand and prevent health damage from environmental agents from the earliest parts of the life course onward.
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Born in Bradford
Description
Born in Bradford (BiB) started in 2007 as a response to the poor health outcomes for children in Bradford. Pregnant women were recruited when they attended the Bradford Royal Infirmary for their routine maternity care. Participants were asked to complete a questionnaire about different aspects of their lives including demographics information, physical and mental health and socio-economic information.
Between 2007 and 2011, 12,453 pregnant women were recruited and 3,353 of their partners. Participants also gave permission for routine data linkage for themselves and their children. The BiB cohort is split between approximately 50% South Asian and 50% non-South Asian participants.
BiB has completed a number of sub-sample studies including BiB1000, which focused on exploring ethnic variation and risk factors of childhood obesity. Data collection included questionnaires with parents when the children were between 6 and 36 months at 6 monthly intervals.The ALLIN and MeDALL studies focused on the relationships between childhood allergies and infections. Data collection for these studies were done via a questionnaire and, for the MeDALL study, children were asked to have a skin allergy test.
Since 2016, BiB have undertaken a full cohort follow-up compromising of home visits for data collection through questionnaires, school visits where children carried out cognitive assessments, and a child measurement programme where children were weighed and measured, had their activity levels measured, and were asked to give a blood sample.
From the findings of these studies, BiB have developed a range of additional research projects such as evaluating and developing new interventions to improve health; for example, focusing on reducing childhood obesity, increasing physical activity, improving oral health and improving mental wellbeing. BiB have gone beyond functioning as an observational birth cohort and are actively trying to build and strengthen local research capacity and translate evidence to practice.
General Design
- Type
- Cohort study
- Cohort type
- Birth cohort
- Data collection type
- Retrospective, Prospective
- Design
- Longitudinal
- Start/End data collection
- 2007 (ongoing)
- Design paper
- Cohort Profile: the Born in Bradford multi-ethnic family cohort study.
Population
- Continents
- Europe
- Regions
- Bradford
- Number of participants
- 12453
Organisations
Lead organisations
- Bradford Royal Infirmary (BRI)United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)https://www.bradfordhospitals.nhs.uk/our-hospitals/bradford-royal-infirmary-bri/
Contributors
Data dictionaries
Tables
Tables and their description
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Variables
Variables and their description
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Subpopulations
List of subpopulations for this resource
| Name | Description | Number of participants | |
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Collection events
List of collection events defined for this resource
| Name | Description | Participants | Start end year | |
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Networks
Part of networks
Publications
Born in Bradford, a cohort study of babies born in Bradford, and their parents: protocol for the recruitment phase
Cohort Profile: the Born in Bradford multi-ethnic family cohort study.
Design and characteristics of a new birth cohort, to study the early origins and ethnic variation of childhood obesity: the BiB1000 study
Growing up in Bradford: protocol for the age 7���������11 follow up of the Born
Access conditions
Born in Bradford allows researchers to apply to access the study data through the BiB Executive Group. Researchers need to submit an EOI form to borninbradford@bthft.nhs.uk and the EOI will be reviewed at the monthly BiB Exec.
Information about the different data sets are available here: https://borninbradford.nhs.uk/research/documents-data/
More information about how to access BiB data can be found here: https://borninbradford.nhs.uk/research/how-to-access-data/
- Data access conditions
- general research use
- Data use conditions
- return to database or resource
- Release type
- Closed dataset
- Linkage options
- No
Funding & Acknowledgements
- Funding
- BiB receives core infrastructure funding from the Wellcome Trust (WT101597MA) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under its Applied Research Collaboration Yorkshire and Humber [NIHR200166]. Further support for genome-wide and multiple ‘omics measurements is from the UK Medical Research Council (G0600705), National Institute of Health Research (NF-SI-0611-10196), US National Institute of Health (R01 DK10324), and the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) / ERC grant agreement no 669545. The recent follow-up of BiB participants was funded by a joint grant from the UK Medical Research Council and UK Economic and Social Science Research Council (MR/N024397/1) and a grant from the British Heart Foundation (CS/16/4/32482.)
- Acknowledgements
- Born in Bradford is only possible because of the enthusiasm and commitment of the children and parents in BiB. We are grateful to all the participants, health professionals, schools and researchers who have made Born in Bradford happen.