DNBC
The Danish National Birth Cohort...
Description
The Danish National Birth Cohort (DNBC) was established to investigate the causal link between exposures in early life and disease later on and the possibilites for disease prevention. Initial data collection information was collected by computer-ass...
General Design
- Type
- Cohort study
- Cohort type
- Birth cohort
- Data collection type
- Prospective
- Design
- Longitudinal
- Start/End data collection
- 1996 until 2003
- Design paper
- The Danish National Birth Cohort - its background, structure and aim. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.
Population
- Countries
- Denmark
- Number of participants
- 100410
- Number of participants with samples
- 96825
- Population age groups
- Prenatal, Infant (0-23 months), Child (2-12 years), Adolescent (13-17 years)
Organisations
Lead organisations
- University of Copenhagen (UCPH)Denmarkhttp://www.ku.dk/english
Contributors
- Inger Kristine Mederdnbc-research@ssi.dk
Subpopulations
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Collection events
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Datasets
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Networks
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Publications
Access conditions
1. Once a proposal has been circulated, the DNBC LifeCycle team at UCPH discuss the proposal to determine whether DNBC can participate and assign a lead DNBC researcher to the proposal. This DNBC researcher then contacts the study PI to confirm our p...
- Data access conditions
- health or medical or biomedical research
- Release type
- Other release type
- Linkage options
- The non-harmonized DNBC data can be linked to Danish registries
Funding & Acknowledgements
- Funding
- The Danish National Birth Cohort was established with a significant grant from the Danish National Research Foundation. Additional support was obtained from the Danish Regional Committees, the Pharmacy Foundation, the Egmont Foundation, the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, the Health Foundation and other minor grants. The DNBC Biobank has been supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Lundbeck Foundation. Follow-up of mothers and children have been supported by the Danish Medical Research Council (SSVF 0646, 271-08-0839/06-066023, O602-01042B, 0602-02738B), the Lundbeck Foundation (195/04, R100-A9193), The Innovation Fund Denmark 0603-00294B (09-067124), the Nordea Foundation (02-2013-2014), Aarhus Ideas (AU R9-A959-13-S804), University of Copenhagen Strategic Grant (IFSV 2012), and the Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF – 4183-00594 and DFF - 4183-00152).
- Acknowledgements
- The authors would like to thank the participants, the first Principal Investigator of DNBC Prof. Jørn Olsen, the scientific managerial team, and DNBC secretariat for being, establishing, developing and consolidating the Danish National Birth Cohort.