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International Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/ije/dym218
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Cohort Profile: The GECKO Drenthe study, overweight programming during early childhood

Carianne L’Abée1,2,*, Pieter JJ Sauer1, Maurice Damen3, Jan-Peter Rake4, Hanneke Cats3 and Ronald P Stolk2

1Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
2Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
3Well Baby Clinic Foundation Icare, Drenthe, The Netherlands.
4Department of Pediatrics, Martini Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands.

* Corresponding author. Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 30.001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands. E-mail: c.abee@bkk.umcg.nl

Accepted 1 October 2007

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   How did the study come about?
 
Obesity and overweight can be considered as international problems, since worldwide prevalence is rapidly increasing.1 Not only is this an increasing trend observed in adults, but also children and adolescents are increasingly diagnosed with overweight and obesity.2 The GECKO Drenthe study is a study within the Groningen Expert Center for Kids with Obesity (GECKO) and has been designed to examine in detail environmental and genetic risk factors for childhood obesity.


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The overall aim of GECKO is studying the etiology of overweight and the metabolic syndrome during early childhood. The present study, the GECKO Drenthe, is a population-based birth-cohort study of children born in a 1-year period in Drenthe, one of the northern provinces of The Netherlands. All children will be followed from pregnancy until adulthood. Genetic, biomedical, social, environmental and dietary data for the children and their parents will be collected.

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