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MoBa
The Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study...
Description
MoBa is a Norwegian population-based longitudinal cohort study of around 114,500 children, 95,000 mothers and 75,000 fathers. Recruitment of pregnant women attending routine ultrasound examination took place between 1999 and 2009, and MoBa has since ...
General Design
- Type
- Cohort study
- Cohort type
- Population cohort
- Data collection type
- Retrospective, Prospective
- Design
- Longitudinal
- Start/End data collection
- 1999 until 2008
- Design paper
- Cohort profile: the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa).
Population
- Countries
- Norway
- Number of participants
- 114000
- Population age groups
- Prenatal, Newborn (0-1 months), Child (2-12 years), Adolescent (13-17 years)
Organisations
Lead organisations
- Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH)Norwayhttp://www.fhi.no/
Contributors
- Per Minor MagnusPerMinor.Magnus@fhi.no
Dataset variables
Datasets
Datasets and their description
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Dataset variables
Dataset variables and their description
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Subpopulations
List of subpopulations for this resource...
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Collection events
List of collection events defined for this resource...
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Networks
Part of networks...
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Publications
Access conditions
- Release type
- Continuous
- Release description
- Continuously; the most recent release is version 12
- Linkage options
- Data can be linked to the medical birth registry.
Funding & Acknowledgements
- Funding
- The Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study is supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services and the Ministry of Education and Research.
- Acknowledgements
- The authors are grateful to all the participating families in Norway who take part in this on-going cohort study.