Department of International Development, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, University of Warwick, Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, Warwick, UK, Instituto de Investigación Nutric...

Centre for Longitudinal Research – He Ara ki Mua, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Growing Up in New Zealand, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, School of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Starship Children’s Hospital, Auckland District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand...

Why was the cohort set up? The Cambridge Baby Growth Study (CBGS) is a prospective, observational pregnancy and birth cohort with detailed assessments and sample collections in infancy and continuing childhood follow-up. Women were recruited during early pregnancy from April 2001 to March 2009; they attended several study visits throughout pregnancy, and then repeatedly with their infants until...

Asthma and other wheezing disorders are the most common chronic health problems in childhood and place a large burden on children, their families and society. Prevalence is highest in infancy or early childhood and the aetiology is complex, with a strong influence of intrauterine and early life exposures. Clinical presentation, response to treatment and prognosis differ by age and the natural h...

Cohort Profile: The Barwon Infant Study Peter Vuillermin,* Richard Saffery, Katrina J Allen, John B Carlin, Mimi LK Tang, Sarath Ranganathan, David Burgner, Terry Dwyer, Fiona Collier, Kim Jachno, Peter Sly, Christos Symeonides, Kathleen McCloskey, John Molloy, Michael Forrester and Anne-Louise Ponsonby Barwon Health, Geelong, VIC, Australia, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville, VIC...

The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA) was initiated by the Dutch Ministry of Welfare, Health and Culture (currently Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports). By the end of the 1980s, ministry officials recognized that ageing would be a major demographic driving force, shaping the need for health care in the Dutch population in the near future. Therefore, they became increasingly interest...

To monitor the health of the public in England, UK, the Central Health Monitoring Unit within the UK Department of Health commissioned an annual health examination survey, which became known as the Health Survey for England (HSE). The first survey was completed in 1991. The HSE covers all of England and is a nationally representative sample of those residing at private residential addresses. Ea...

When the Fremantle Diabetes Study (FDS) Phase I was conceived in 1991 by its chief investigator (T.M.E.D.), there were few published longitudinal communitybased diabetes natural history studies. Population studies such as Framingham in the United States and Busselton in Australia contained relatively small subgroups from which limited additional diabetesspecific information was collected. The U...

The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) is a longitudinal study of men and women who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957 and one of their randomly selected siblings. Wisconsin is located in the upper midwest of the United States and had a population of approximately 14 000 000 in 1957, making it the 14th most populous state at that time. Data spanning almost 60 years allow researchers ...

The original cohort study of AHAP started in 2011 on 1616 elderly residents of Amirkola, northern part of Iran near the Caspian Sea. The main goal of this study was to comprehensively evaluate the health of the elderly in the region with the emphasis on chronic diseases such as osteoporosis. The first cohort profile was published in the International Journal of Epidemiology in 2014. The phase 1...