Children's Health and the Environment in the Faroes - COHORT 4 (CHEF)
The CHEF research projects focus on the health of children and adults in the Faroe Islands, Denmark, with an emphasis on the impact of seafood diets and marine contaminants. Cohort 4 was established to investigate the effects of the Faroese health authorities' recommendation in 1998 for women to reduce their intake of pilot whale meat and blubber. The data collection took place during 12 months from October 2000, and 148 women completed the full protocol. Blood samples from the 37th week of pregnancy were collected, and the women were interviewed at home when they were about 28, 33, and 38 weeks pregnant. Blood samples from approximately 100 of the children were drawn at the age of 13 months.
Study design
Cohort - birth
Number of participants at first data collection
148 (participants)
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
Female
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Countries
Year of first data collection
2000
Primary Institutions
Faroese Hospital System
Harvard University
University of Southern Denmark (Syddansk Universitet, SDU)
Links
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program
Danish Council for Strategic Research (Strategiske Forskningsråd)
Danish Medical Research Council
European Commission
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Activity log (e.g. food, sleep, exercise)
- Interview – face-to-face
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Self-report questionnaire – unspecified
- None
- None
- None
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
