Title
Cohort Profile Update: The 1982 Pelotas (Brazil) Birth Cohort Study
Date Issued
27 May 2015
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Horta B.L.
Gigante D.P.
Gonçalves H.
Dos Santos Motta J.V.
Oliveira I.O.
Barros F.C.
Victora C.G.
Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Publisher(s)
Oxford University Press
Abstract
In this manuscript, we update the profile of the 1982 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study. In 1982, 5914 live births whose families lived in the urban are of Pelotas were enrolled in the cohort. In 2012-13, we tried to locate the whole original cohort; 3701 participants were interviewed who, added to the 325 known deaths, represented a follow-up rate of 68.1%. In contrast to the previous home interviews, in this wave all participants were invited to visit the research clinic to be interviewed and examined. The visit was carried out at a mean age of 30.2 years and mainly focused on four categories of outcomes: (i) mental health; (ii) body composition; (iii) precursors of complex chronic diseases; and (iv) human capital. Requests for collaboration by outside researchers are welcome.
Start page
441
End page
441e
Volume
44
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Estudios urbanos Pediatría
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84936741531
PubMed ID
Source
International Journal of Epidemiology
ISSN of the container
03005771
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