ALSPAC

Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children...

Description

Based at the University of Bristol, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as Children of the 90s, is a world-leading birth cohort study. Between April 1991 and December 1992 we recruited more than 14,000 pregnant...

General Design

Type
Cohort study
Cohort type
Population cohort
Data collection type
Retrospective, Prospective
Design
Longitudinal
Start/End data collection
1990 until 1992
Design paper
Cohort Profile: the 'children of the 90s'--the index offspring of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.

Population

Countries
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
Number of participants
14541

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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  • LongITools is a European research project studying the interactions between the environment, lifestyle and health in determining the risks of chronic cardiovascular and metabolic diseases....

  • An Integrated Life-Course Approach for Person-Centred Solutions and Care for Ageing with Multi-morbidity in the European Regions – STAGE; Stay Healthy Through Ageing...

  • 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 Equal-Life project will develop and test combined exposure data using a new approach to multi-modal exposures and their impact on children’s mental health and development. A combination of birth cohort data with new data sources will provide new ...

  • The objective of the REMEDIA project is to better understand the contribution of the exposome to two untreatable respiratory diseases: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cystic fibrosis (CF). Starting from the study of patient cohorts t...

Publications

Access conditions

Data use conditions
not for profit, non commercial use only
Release type
Closed dataset
Release description
Released once data collected and cleaned

Funding & Acknowledgements

Funding
“The UK Medical Research Council and Wellcome (Grant ref: 217065/Z/19/Z) and the University of Bristol provide core support for ALSPAC. This publication is the work of the authors and <INSERT NAMES> will serve as guarantors for the contents of this paper.” In addition, you are expected to acknowledge the grant(s) which supported the collection of the primary exposure(s) and outcome(s) used in your study and any other grants in the checklist, which are pertinent to your study. The following sentences should be included with the above section: “A comprehensive list of grants funding (PDF, 330KB) is available on the ALSPAC website. This research was specifically funded by <INSERT DETAILS FOR SPECIFIC PROJECT(S) WHERE APPROPRIATE, including grant number(s)>.”
Acknowledgements
We are extremely grateful to all the families who took part in this study, the midwives for their help in recruiting them, and the whole ALSPAC team, which includes interviewers, computer and laboratory technicians, clerical workers, research scientists, volunteers, managers, receptionists and nurses.

Documentation