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China Maternal and Child Cohort Study (CMCC)
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Sample details

The CMCC is a cohort of pregnant women and their subsequent offspring, and investigates early childhood development, environment and eugenics, perinatal health, maternal and child nutrition and health, and maternal and child policies and systems. Five provinces across the five major regions of China (the four corners and one centre) were selected for the project, and in each province, four health care institutions (2 urban, 2 rural) were chosen, for a total of 20 health care institutions. When a pregnant woman undergoes a pregnancy examination for the first time at one of these selected medical institutions, her information will be collected on the platform for the current research.

Study design
Cohort - primary caregiver and child, Cohort - birth

Number of participants at first data collection

100,000 (mothers)

100,000 (children)

Age at first data collection

Varied (mothers)

0 - 6 years (children)

Participant year of birth

Varied (mothers)

Varied (children)

Participant sex
All

Representative sample at baseline?
No

Sample features

Children and young people
Pregnant people
Women
Dataset details

Country

China

Year of first data collection

2015

Primary Institutions

Peking University (北京大学, PKU) (Academic, China)

Links

chinacohort.bjmu.edu.cn/project/43/

doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaa102

cohortconsortium.com/queue/management/fb7bf81f360c43f2918c074ee8d46ef4

Profile paper DOI
Not available

Funders

Beingmate Health and Development of Women and Children Research Fund (Third Sector, China)

Ongoing?
Yes

Data types collected

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Quantitative data collection
  • Secondary data
Qualitative data collection
  • None
Neuroimaging data collection
  • None
Linked or secondary data
  • Healthcare data
Features

Engagement

  • None
  • Keywords

    Diet and nutrition
    Environmental factors
    Human development
    Pregnancy
    Pregnancy outcomes
    Pregnancy-birth cohort

    Consortia and dataset groups

    China Cohort Consortium (CCC)
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