IJE Advance Access originally published online on August 22, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(5):1146-1150; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl170
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Cohort Profile |
Cohort profile: The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa)
1 Division of Epidemiology, The Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
2 Medical Birth Registry of Norway, Locus of Registry Based Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
* Corresponding author: Norwegian Institute of Public Health, PO Box 4404, Nydalen, 0403 Oslo, Norway.
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The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) was planned in the 1990s partly by researchers at the Medical Birth Registry of Norway (MBRN)1 and partly by researchers at the National Institute of Public Health (from 2002 comprising MBRN as well as other institutions and renamed the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH). The study had a long planning phase involving many scientists who contributed ideas that helped to design questionnaires and to structure the biobank, which is described in detail elsewhere.2 Collaboration was established with the Danish Birth Cohort Study,3 which was planned in parallel with MoBa. In 1997, a pilot study was undertaken, recruiting pregnant women at their first visit to their general practitioner. However, the main study did not implement this data collection method owing to protests made by a group of general practitioners who argued against the scientific value of the study and suggested that women
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