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)
License
https://license-placeholder.nl

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 OuluĀ (UOULU)
    Finland

Contributors

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.