Norwegian Family Based Life Course Study
Initiatives
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Non-communicable diseases and comorbidity with other health states such as mental health; To take advantage of full scale Norwegian register based family data and establish comprehensive linkages involving multiple data sources, eg. registers and survey data.
- Start Year
- 2005
- Funding
- Norwegian Institute of Public Health
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Children are followed from 10, 11 and 12 years of age until they have completed secondary education.
Marker Paper
Næss Ø, Hoff DA. The Norwegian Family Based Life Course (NFLC) study: data structure and potential for public health research. International Journal of Public Health. 2013 Feb;58(1):57-64. DOI: 10.1007/s00038-012-0379-4
PUBMED 22735991
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
- Families
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 5,266,270
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- All Norwegians participating in censuses from 1960 to 2001 were included.
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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