The Generation R Study: design and cohort update 2010
Erasmus MC · Erasmus University Rotterdam
Abstract
The Generation R Study is a population-based prospective cohort study from fetal life until adulthood. The study is designed to identify early environmental and genetic causes and causal pathways leading to normal and abnormal growth, development and health from fetal life, childhood and young adulthood. This multidisciplinary study focuses on several health outcomes including behaviour and cognition, body composition, eye development, growth, hearing, heart and vascular development, infectious disease and immunity, oral health and facial growth, respiratory health, allergy and skin disorders of children and their parents. Main exposures of interest include environmental, endocrine, genomic (genetic,…
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- Medicine
- Public health
- Cohort study
- Population
- Prospective cohort study
- Pediatrics
- Gerontology
- Environmental health
- Zero hunger