Cohort profile: cerebral palsy in the Norwegian and Danish birth cohorts (MOBAND-CP).

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purpose of MOthers and BAbies in Norway and Denmark cerebral palsy (MOBAND-CP) was to study CP aetiology in a prospective design.

Participants

MOBAND-CP is a cohort of more than 210 000 children, created as a collaboration between the world's two largest pregnancy cohorts-the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort study (MoBa) and the Danish National Birth Cohort. MOBAND-CP includes maternal interview/questionnaire data collected during pregnancy and follow-up, plus linked information from national health registries.

Findings to date

Initial harmonisation of data from the 2 cohorts has created 140 variables for children and their mothers. In the MOBAND-CP cohort, 438 children with CP have been identified through record linkage with validated national registries

SUBMITTER: Tollanes MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5020679 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature