Northern Finland Birth Cohorts
Initiatives
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To examine risk factors involved in pre-term birth and intrauterine growth retardation, and the consequences of these early adverse outcomes on subsequent morbidity.
**NFBCprojectcenter@oulu.fi
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- Start Year
- 1965
- Funding
- NFBC 1966 received financial support from University of Oulu Grant no. 24000692, Oulu University Hospital Grant no. 24301140, ERDF European Regional Development Fund Grant no. 539/2010 A31592.
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Data collected with postal questionnaires at the ages of 1, 14, 31 and 46 years and various hospital records and national register data.
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Families
- Other : Pregnant women and their newborns.
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 12,058
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
On the study website : https://www.oulu.fi/nfbc/nfbc1966_1986