Québec Birth Cohort on Immunity and Health (CO·MMUNITY)
The Quebec Birth Cohort on Immunity and Health was originally set up to investigate the non-specific effects of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination on the occurrence of selected autoimmune and inflammatory diseases and included over 81,000 individuals born in 1974, who were followed until 1994. The cohort was expanded to enable studying rarer diseases requiring a larger sample size and follow-up during adulthood. Assembled in 2017, the expanded Quebec Birth Cohort on Immunity and Health (CO·MMUNITY) includes over 400,000 individuals born in 1970–1974 in the province of Quebec, Canada, and followed until 2014.
Study design
Cohort, Cohort - birth
Number of participants at first data collection
400,611 (CO·MMUNITY participants)
81,496 (original participants)
Age at first data collection
Birth (CO·MMUNITY participants)
Birth (original participants)
Participant year of birth
1974 (CO·MMUNITY participants)
1970 - 1974 (original participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1970
Primary Institutions
National Institute for Scientific Research (Institut national de la recherche scientifique, INRS)
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Canadian Foundation for Innovation (Fondation canadienne pour l’innovation, FCI)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR, Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada, IRSC)
Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS)
Institut de la statistique du Québec
Ministry of Education and Higher Education (Ministère de l’Éducation et de l'Enseignement supérieur, MEES)
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Interview – phone
- Secondary data
- Self-report questionnaire – online
- None
- None
- Census data
- Existing research data
- Healthcare data
- Medical birth registry
- Mortality data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
