Cohort profile: Finnish Health and Early Life Microbiota (HELMi) longitudinal birth cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

HELMi (Health and Early Life Microbiota) is a longitudinal, prospective general population birth cohort, set up to identify environmental, lifestyle and genetic factors that modify the intestinal microbiota development in the first years of life and their relation to child health and well-being.

Participants

The HELMi cohort consists of 1055 healthy term infants born in 2016-2018 mainly at the capital region of Finland and their parents. The intestinal microbiota development of the infants is characterised based on nine, strategically selected, faecal samples and connected to extensive online questionnaire-collected metadata at weekly to monthly intervals focusing on the diet, other exposures and family's lifestyle as well as the health and growth of the child. Motor

SUBMITTER: Korpela K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6609051 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature