CPC
Copenhagen Perinatal Cohort...
Description
The Copenhagen Perinatal Cohort (CPC) comprises 9125 individuals born at the National University Hospital between September 1959 and December 1961. The mothers were interviewed regarding social, general medical, and obstetrical history during pregnan...
General Design
- Type
- Cohort study
- Cohort type
- Birth cohort
- Data collection type
- Prospective
- Design
- Longitudinal
- Design description
- All children born from September 21, 1959 to December 21, 1961 and there mothers were examined during pregnancy and at an antenatal visit at the hospital. The children were invited to follow-up examinations at 1, 3 and 6 years of age, which were done at the hospital. At the age of 41–43 years study participants were sent a questionnaire on lifestyle risk factors and health issues. Moreover, the children and their mothers are followed in national registers.
- Start/End data collection
- 1959 (ongoing)
Population
- Countries
- Denmark
- Regions
- Copenhagen
- Number of participants
- 9125
- Number of participants with samples
- 8112
- Population age groups
- Prenatal, All ages
- Inclusion criteria
- Defined population inclusion criterion
- Gravidity inclusion criterion
- Hospital patient inclusion criterion
Organisations
Additional organisations
- Region Hovedstaden (RegionH)Denmarkhttps://www.frederiksberghospital.dk/ckff/Sider/CKFF.aspx
Data holder
Contributors
Collection events
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Networks
Part of networks...
Publications
Breastfeeding duration in infancy and adult risks of type 2 diabetes in a high-income country
Effects of body size and change in body size from infancy through childhood on body mass index in adulthood
Gestational weight gain in relation to offspring body mass index and obesity from infancy through adulthood
Access conditions
The data is a combination of data with personal identification numbers from the Copenhagen Perinatal Cohort, hosted by the Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, and data from national health registers. According to Danish law, this information...
- Data access conditions
- health or medical or biomedical research
- Data use conditions
- research specific restrictions
- not for profit, non commercial use only
- collaboration required
- user specific restriction
- project specific restriction
- institution specific restriction
- Data access fee
- false
- Release type
- Closed dataset
- Prelinked
- true
- Linkage options
- The database is stored at servers hosted by Statistics Denmark, who have linked the cohort to Danish national registers via the personal identification number. Microdata is not provided from Statistics Denmark. Data is made available through the so-called external electronic access, which provides access to data from one’s workplace via the internet and under certain conditions. Users of Statistics Denmark’s micro-data schemes may not pass on material supplied from Statistics Denmark to third parties.
Funding & Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements
- We are grateful for the collection of the Copenhagen Perinatal Cohort data led by the late Drs Aage Willumsen and Bengt Zachau‐Christiansen