ENVIRONAGE
ENVIRonmental influence ON early AGEing...
Description
Within the ongoing population-based prospective birth cohort study ENVIRONAGE we explore new dimensions in the current understanding of human ageing and its interaction with the environment...
General Design
- Type
- Cohort study
- Cohort type
- Birth cohort
- Data collection type
- Retrospective, Prospective
- Design
- Longitudinal
- Start/End data collection
- 2010 (ongoing)
- Design paper
- Cohort Profile: The ENVIRonmental influence ON early AGEing (ENVIRONAGE): a birth cohort study.
Population
- Countries
- Belgium
- Number of participants
- 2000
- Number of participants with samples
- 2000
- Population age groups
- Prenatal, Infant (0-23 months), Child (2-12 years)
Organisations
Lead organisations
- Hasselt University (Universiteit Hasselt) (UHASSELT)Belgiumhttp://www.uhasselt.be/en
Contributors
Subpopulations
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Collection events
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Datasets
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Networks
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Publications
Access conditions
Contact Tim Nawrot (tim.nawrot@uhasselt.be) or Michelle Plusquin (Michelle.plusquin@uhasselt.Be)...
- Data access conditions
- health or medical or biomedical research
- Release type
- Annually
- Release description
- Due to ongoing recruitment and follow-up, annual updates are provided of the datasets
- Linkage options
- No
Funding & Acknowledgements
- Funding
- The ENVIRONAGE birth cohort is supported by the European Research Council [ERC-2012-StG.310898], and by funds of the Flemish Scientific Research council [FWO, G.0.733.15.N, G.0.592.14].
- Acknowledgements
- The authors are extremely grateful to the participating women and neonates, as well as the staff of the maternity ward, midwives and the staff of the clinical laboratory of East-Limburg Hospital in Genk.