Channel Islands Occupation Birth Cohort Study
The Channel Islands Occupation Birth Cohort Study was a retrospective cohort study of 873 individuals born in Guernsey, Channel Islands between 1923 and 1937, designed to investigate the long-term health effects of early-life undernutrition during the 1940–45 German occupation. Participants were recruited from historical records of births attended by a single community midwife across Guernsey’s ten parishes. Follow-up was conducted retrospectively using hospital episode statistics (HES) from 1997 to 2005 to identify cardiovascular disease outcomes.
Study design
Cohort, Cohort - birth
Number of participants at first data collection
873 (participants)
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants)
Participant year of birth
1923 - 1937 (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1923 (birth record linkage)
1997 (HES linkage)
Primary Institutions
London Metropolitan University
St George's University of London
University of Leeds
Links
No website available
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Lloyds Bank Foundation for the Channel Islands
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Employer data
- Healthcare data
- Medical birth registry
Engagement
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