DFBC
Dutch Famine Birth Cohort study...
Description
The cohort was set up to investigate the effects of acute maternal undernutrition during specific stages of gestation on the offspring’s adult health. The main outcomes of interest of the DFBC are chronic cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, ageing...
General Design
- Cohort type
Birth cohort
- Design
Longitudinal
- Collection type
Retrospective, Prospective
- Start/End year
1994 - 2021
- Population
Netherlands (the)
- Number of participants
2414
- Marker paper
- Cohort profile: the Dutch famine birth cohort (DFBC)—a prospective birth cohort study in the
Subpopulations
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Collection events
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Networks
Networks Explanation about networks from this cohort and the functionality seen here....
Access conditions
1. Submit a DFBC project proposal (s.r.derooij@amsterdamumc.nl) 2. Approval of the project 3. Sign a data access agreement (DAA) 4. Data access with credentials (via DAT...
- Conditions
health or medical or biomedical research
- Release
upon completion of fu
- Linkage options
no
Funding & Citation requirements
- Funding
The Dutch famine birth cohort study has been funded by the Diabetes Fonds (The Netherlands, Grant Number NA), the Netherlands Heart Foundation ((NHS2001B087, NHS2007B083), The European Science Foundation (EUROSTRESS-DOME project), the European Commission (Brainage (Seventh Framework Programme Project 279281), Dynahealth (Horizon 2020 Project 633595), Longitools (Horizon 2020 Project 874739), Well-being (UK, Grant Number NA), the Medical Research Council (UK, Grant Number NA), the Dutch Research Council (NWO Aspasia Project 015014039) and the Academic Medical Centre (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Grant number NA). We declare no conflict of interest.
- Citation requirements
We would like to thank the members of the Dutch famine birth cohort for their participation in our studies. We would also like to thank all researchers and other staff who have worked with us on study design, data collection, assessments, analyses and drafting of manuscripts.