Critical assessment of the research outcomes of European birth cohorts: linking environmental factors with non-communicable diseases

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2016.12.037" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.puhe.2016.12.037</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Critical assessment of the research outcomes of European birth cohorts: linking environmental factors with non-communicable diseases

Original language description

Objectives: The objective of this review paper was to stimulate collaborative discussions toward the development of a general concept of an open source protocol for a feasible and efficient longitudinal birth cohort study exploring non-communicable diseases (NCDs), their multifactorial etiology and relations between various risk factors. Study design: The present paper systematically reviews the design of existing birth cohorts in Europe containing environmental exposure data, and assesses a quantity and quality of their research outcomes as their potential to be an effective tool for studying non communicable diseases and their risk factors. Methods: European birth cohorts with more than 3000 participants have been included in the study. A total number of scientific papers published in the internationally recognized journals and their impact factors and citation records were evaluated for all cohorts as surrogates for their efficiency to contribute to NCDs understanding and thus their prevention. Results: The birth cohorts contributing most significantly to the NCD understanding shared common features: (i) study size between 10,000 and 15,000 mother-child pairs; (ii) repeated assessment of children from prenatal into adulthood; and (iii) availability of biological samples. Smaller cohorts and cohorts with a specific focus generated a lower number of publications; however, these often received considerably a higher number of citations. Conclusions: General cohort studies with 10,000-15,000 mother child pairs allow a broader context interpretation, publish a higher number of articles, and often lead to the formation of infrastructures for 'spin-off (nested) studies'.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Public Health

ISSN

0033-3506

e-ISSN

1476-5616

Volume of the periodical

145

Issue of the periodical within the volume

April

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

136-145

UT code for WoS article

000399629500022

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85010991916