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

Cohort type

Birth cohort

Design

Longitudinal

Collection type

Prospective

Start/End year

1996 - 2003

Population

Denmark

Number of participants

100410

Number of participants with samples

96825

Marker paper
The Danish National Birth Cohort - its background, structure and aim. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.

Contact and Contributors

Available Data & Samples

Areas of information

  • Lifestyle and behaviours
  • Birth, pregnancy and reproductive health history

Subpopulations

List of subcohorts or subpopulations for this resource...

Collection events

List of collection events defined for this resource...

Networks

Networks Explanation about networks from this cohort and the functionality seen here....

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...

Conditions

health or medical or biomedical research

Linkage options

The non-harmonized DNBC data can be linked to Danish registries

Funding & Citation requirements

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 - 4183-0

Citation requirements

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 Coho