National Child Development Study (or 1958 Birth Cohort)
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Cohort profile: 1958 British birth cohort (National Child Development Study).
The 1958 birth cohort or the National Child Development Study (NCDS) began as a study of Perinatal Mortality focussing on just over 17 000 births in a single week in 1958. To address concerns regarding the stillbirth rate not falling, the original study aimed to identify social and obstetric factors linked to stillbirth and neonatal death. The findings contributed to the improvement of maternit...
متن کاملBirth weight, childhood socioeconomic environment, and cognitive development in the 1958 British birth cohort study.
OBJECTIVES To examine the combined effect of social class and weight at birth on cognitive trajectories during school age and the associations between birth weight and educational outcomes through to 33 years. DESIGN Longitudinal, population based, birth cohort study. PARTICIPANTS 10 845 males and females born during 3-9 March 1958 with information on birth weight, social class, and cogniti...
متن کاملCHILD DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY RESOURCES: an exploration of evidence from the second generation of the 1958 British birth cohort
This paper investigates the impact of family income, material deprivation, maternal socioeconomic status and child-rearing behaviour on an indicator of cognitive functioning, using data for children aged 6 to 17 years from the British National Child Development Study. There are large differences in cognitive functioning by income, before differences in other socio-economic indicators had been c...
متن کاملAdverse childhood experiences and child-to-adult height trajectories in the 1958 British birth cohort.
BACKGROUND Adverse childhood experiences (maltreatment and household dysfunction) are associated with adult cardiovascular disease (CVD). One possible pathway is through physical development, which has been linked to CVD risk. Our aim was to examine whether adverse childhood experiences are associated with child-to-adult height trajectories. METHOD The 1958 British birth cohort (n=17,638) inc...
متن کاملBirth weight and lipids in a national birth cohort study.
OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between birth weight and lipid levels in a 53-year-old birth cohort from England, Scotland, and Wales. METHODS AND RESULTS Lipid levels were obtained from nonfasting blood samples, collected at the most recent follow-up of the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, for 2559 men and women. Regression models indicated that in men, a 1-kg increase...
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عنوان ژورنال: Open Health Data
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2054-7102
DOI: 10.5334/ohd.ak