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

Contributors

Dataset variables

Datasets
Datasets and their description
No results for current selection
Dataset variables
Dataset variables and their description
No results for current selection

Subpopulations

List of subpopulations for this resource...

No results for current selection

Collection events

List of collection events defined for this resource...

No results for current selection

Networks

Part of networks...

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  • The INTEGRATE-LMedC consortium will develop a new concept to guide and support decision-making for the next-generation research infrastructure (RI) to facilitate efficient utilization and harmonization of large medical cohorts (LMedC), and to acceler...

  • The EU Child Cohort Network: A Europe-wide network of cohort studies started in early life Cohort studies started from pregnancy or childhood give the unique opportunity to relate early-life stressors with variation in development, health and disease...

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.

Documentation