BIB

Born in Bradford...

Description

Born in Bradford (BiB) started in 2007 as a response to the poor health outcomes for children in Bradford. Pregnant women were recruited when they attended the Bradford Royal Infirmary for their routine maternity care. Participants were asked to comp...

General Design

Type
Cohort study
Cohort type
Birth cohort
Data collection type
Retrospective, Prospective
Design
Longitudinal
Start/End data collection
2007 (ongoing)
Design paper
Cohort Profile: the Born in Bradford multi-ethnic family cohort study.

Population

Regions
Bradford
Number of participants
12453

Organisations

Lead organisations
  • Bradford Royal Infirmary (BRI)
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Contributors

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Networks

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Publications

Access conditions

Born in Bradford allows researchers to apply to access the study data through the BiB Executive Group. Researchers need to submit an EOI form to borninbradford@bthft.nhs.uk and the EOI will be reviewed at the monthly BiB Exec. Information about t...

Data access conditions
general research use
Data use conditions
return to database or resource
Release type
Closed dataset
Linkage options
No

Funding & Acknowledgements

Funding
BiB receives core infrastructure funding from the Wellcome Trust (WT101597MA) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under its Applied Research Collaboration Yorkshire and Humber [NIHR200166]. Further support for genome-wide and multiple ‘omics measurements is from the UK Medical Research Council (G0600705), National Institute of Health Research (NF-SI-0611-10196), US National Institute of Health (R01 DK10324), and the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) / ERC grant agreement no 669545. The recent follow-up of BiB participants was funded by a joint grant from the UK Medical Research Council and UK Economic and Social Science Research Council (MR/N024397/1) and a grant from the British Heart Foundation (CS/16/4/32482.)
Acknowledgements
Born in Bradford is only possible because of the enthusiasm and commitment of the children and parents in BiB. We are grateful to all the participants, health professionals, schools and researchers who have made Born in Bradford happen.

Documentation