Danish National Birth Cohort
Initiatives
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To study the influence of exposures in the period from conception to early childhood – including fetal growth, cell division, and organ functioning – on long-lasting health and disease susceptibility.
**Contact:
dnbc-research@ssi.dk**
- Start Year
- 1996
- Funding
- Danish National Research Foundation, Danish Pharmaceutical Association, Ministry of Health, National Board of Health, Statens Serum Institut, BIOMED, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, Danish Heart Association, Danish Medical Research Council, and Sygekassernes Helsefond.
- Supplementary Information
- International HundredK+ Cohorts Consortium (IHCC) (66
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Telephone interview occurs four times at gestational weeks 12 and 30 and when the child is 6 and 12 months old. At at weeks 25± 26 of gestation all participants receive a food frequency questionnaire. these newborns have been followed at year 7, 11, 14 and 18. There was one follow-up questionnaire to study the health of women after childbirth. A subsample was included in the puberty follow-up from 2012 to 2020 that asked the participants to complete a short questionnaire every 6 months.
- Supplementary Information
- https://www.dnbc.dk/about-the-dnbc
Marker Paper
Olsen J, Melbye M, Olsen SF, et al. The Danish National Birth Cohort--its background, structure and aim. Scand J Public Health. 2001;29(4):300-307. doi:10.1177/14034948010290040201
PUBMED 11775787
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Families
- Other : Pregnant women and their newborns.
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 101,042
- Number of participants with biosamples
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
On the study website : https://www.dnbc.dk/
Supplementary Information