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. ...
NFBC1986
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 province...
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
- 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
Dataset variables
Datasets
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Dataset variables
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Collection events
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Networks
Part of networks...
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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.