UBCOS Harmonisation Study
Original and harmonised datasets are pshysically placed in Stockholm (Sweden). Contact with the principal investigator of UBCOS: Ilona Koupil.
**Acknowledgement:**
The UBCoS study has received funding from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE; 2006-1518 and 2013-1084) and from the Swedish Research Council (VR; 2013-5104 and 2013-5474). The authors gratefully acknowledge the Centre for Health Equity Studies at the Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet’s team who provided data for this study.
**References:**
* Koupil I. The Uppsala studies on developmental origins of health and disease. J Intern Med 2007;261(5):426–36.
* Koupil I, Goodman A. Health Equity: A life course approach. Public Serv Rev Eur Union 2011;11:382–3.
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Harmonization Study Design
Populations
Representative and well-defined cohort of 14,192 males and females born in Uppsala University Hospital from 1915-1929.
The population consists of 21,070 biological children from the participants in the 1st generation population. They could be born anywhere from 1932 onwards, including potentially outside of Sweden as long as they were ultimately registered in Sweden.