A Europe-wide network of cohort studies started in early life Cohort studies started from pregnancy or childhood give the unique opportunity to relate early-life stressors with variation in development, health and disease throughout the life course. Moreover, advanced analytical approaches used in observational studies can help identify causality and potential for early-life interventions on factors that cannot be easily studied in experimental settings. These factors include socioeconomic circumstances, migration, urban environment as well as lifestyle-related determinants and will be given particular focus in our project. We will set up a European pregnancy and childhood cohort, the EU Child Cohort Network, which brings together extensive existing data from more than 250,000 European children and their parents. These cohorts enable studies in multiple generations because of their detailed phenotyping of both parents and children. The network will bring together existing successful multidisciplinary cohort studies, which all started before or during pregnancy or in childhood. Together, they span the full life course and contain detailed phenotypical information as well as biological samples. The EU Child Cohort Network will optimize exploitation of more than 40 available cohort resources in Europe and will enable innovative research on identification of novel markers of early-life stressors related to health trajectories throughout the full life cycle. Although LifeCycle partners and their cohorts have taken the initiative for this unique collaboration, the network is open to other partners with population-based cohorts started in early life, specifically those from Eastern and Southern Europe. To ensure that this will be a Europe-wide, open and sustainable network, which exceeds the LifeCycle Project duration, we will introduce a data sharing platform taking account of ethical, legal and societal implications, we will organize yearly meetings open to all European pregnancy and child cohort researchers and we will start a fellowship programme for exchange between these European cohorts.
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Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986
Description
NFBC1986 is a longitudinal one-year birth cohort study from an unselected population. The cohort included all the mothers (N=9362) with children whose expected date of birth felt between July 1st 1985 - June 30th 1986 in the two northernmost provinces on Finland (Oulu and Lapland). A small percentage of the births occurred towards the end of June 1985 and begin of July 1986.
The number of deliveries in the cohort was 9362, which was 99% of all the deliveries taking place in the target period of the cohort. Altogether 9479 children were born into the cohort, 9432 of them live born. The original data have been supplemented by data collected with postal questionnaires at the ages of 7, 8 and 16 years and various hospital records and statistical register data. The latest data collection with clinical examinations and questionnaires was at the age of 33 years.
General Design
- Type
- Cohort study
- Cohort type
- Birth cohort
- Data collection type
- Prospective
- Design
- Longitudinal
- Start/End data collection
- 1985 (ongoing)
- Design paper
- Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986
Population
- Continents
- Europe
- Countries
- Finland
- Regions
- Lapland, North Ostrobothnia
- Number of participants
- 9479
- Population age groups
- Prenatal, Infant (0-23 months), Child (2-12 years), Adolescent (13-17 years), Young adult (18-24 years), Adult (25-44 years)
Organisations
Lead organisations
- University of OuluFinlandhttps://www.oulu.fi
Contributors
- Minna RuddockNFBCprojectcenter@oulu.fi
Data dictionaries
Tables
Tables and their description
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Variables
Variables and their description
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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
Access conditions
https://www.oulu.fi/nfbc/materialrequest
- Data access conditions
- health or medical or biomedical research
- Release type
- Closed dataset
- Linkage options
- yes
Funding & Acknowledgements
- Funding
- EU QLG1-CT-2000-01643 (EUROBLCS) Grant no. E51560, NorFA Grant no. 731, 20056, 30167, USA / NIH 2000 G DF682 Grant no. 50945
- Acknowledgements
- We thank all cohort members and researchers who have participated in the study. We also wish acknowledge the work of the NFBC project center.