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The Generation R Study is a population-based prospective cohort study designed to identify early environmental and genetic causes of normal and abnormal growth, development, and health from fetal life until young adulthood.
This paper does not offer a specific intervention or diet. It describes a large-scale research study designed to understand how genetics, environment, and lifestyle factors from pregnancy onwards affect health. For an individual, this means that long-term health is influenced by a complex interplay of factors starting before birth, and that large-scale observational data is being gathered to understand these relationships.
The Generation R Study is a population-based prospective cohort study from fetal life until young adulthood. The study is designed to identify early environmental and genetic causes of normal and abnormal growth, development and health during fetal life, childhood and adulthood.
Why this rating
This is a high-quality, large-scale (n=9,778 mothers), population-based prospective cohort study with rigorous ethical approval and standardized data collection.
Source
The Generation R Study: design and cohort update 2010
Vincent W. V. Jaddoe et al. · European Journal of Epidemiology · 2010
DOI 10.1007/s10654-010-9516-7
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