Design of the 18-year follow-up of the Danish COPSAC₂₀₀₀ birth cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Atopic diseases, obesity and neuropsychiatric disorders are lifestyle-related and environmental-related chronic inflammatory disorders, and the incidences have increased in the last years.

Objective

To outline the design of the 18-year follow-up of the Copenhagen Prospective Study on Asthma in Childhood (COPSAC₂₀₀₀) birth cohort, where risk factors of atopic diseases, obesity and neuropsychiatric disorders are identified through extensive characterisation of the environment, along with deep clinical phenotyping and biosampling for omics profiling.

Methods

COPSAC₂₀₀₀ is a Danish prospective clinical birth cohort study of 411 children born to mothers with asthma who were enrolled at 1 month of age and closely followed at the COPSAC clini

SUBMITTER: Molbæk-Engbjerg T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11367328 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature