The Pelotas birth cohort study, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1982-2001
Cad. saúde pública
;
19(5): 1241-1256, set.-out. 2003. ilus, graf
Artigo
em Inglês
| LILACS
| ID: lil-349764
RESUMO
Given the growing recognition of the importance of the life course approach for the determination of chronic diseases, birth cohort studies are becoming increasingly important. This paper describes the methods used in the 1982 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort study, one of the largest and longest studies of this type in developing countries. All 5,914 hospital births occurring in Pelotas in 1982 (over 99 percent of all deliveries) were studied prospectively. The main stages of the study took place in 1983, 1984, 1986, 1995, 1997, 2000, and 2001. More than two thousand variables are available for each subject who participated in all stages of the study. Recent phases of the study included the examination of 2,250 males when presenting for the army recruitment exam in 2000, the study of a 27 percent sample of men and women in 2001 through household visits, and the study of over 400 children born to the cohort women. Follow-up rates in the recent stages of the cohort were 78.9 percent for the army examination and 69.0 percent for the household visits. Ethnographic and oral health studies were conducted in sub-samples. Some recent results on blood pressure, adolescent pregnancy, and asthma are presented as examples of utilization of the data. Suggestions on lessons learned for other cohort studies are proposed
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Índice:
LILACS (Américas)
Assunto principal:
Proteção da Criança
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Estágios do Ciclo de Vida
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo de etiologia
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Estudo de incidência
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Estudo observacional
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Pesquisa qualitativa
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Fatores de risco
País/Região como assunto:
América do Sul
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Brasil
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Cad. saúde pública
Assunto da revista:
Saúde Pública
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Toxicologia
Ano de publicação:
2003
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
País de afiliação:
Brasil
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Reino Unido
Instituição/País de afiliação:
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine/GB
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Universidade Federal de Pelotas/BR
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