Preterm Birth and Early Life Programming of Adult Health and Disease (ESTER)
The ESTER study is a birth cohort study of individuals born between 1985 and 1989 in Northern Finland that investigated how preterm birth and maternal pregnancy disorders affect offspring health and well-being in adulthood. Cohort members born in 1985-1986 were recruited via the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 (NFBC1986), and those born in 1987-1989 were identified through the Finnish Medical Birth Register (FMBR). At 23 years of age, 1,161 participants underwent a full clinical and neuropsychological assessment in 2009-2011. Of these, 753 participated in the preterm birth stud,y comprising 396 participants born preterm and 356 term-born controls. The participants are planned to be invited to a re-examination and can also be traced through linkage with medical records and national registers.
Study design
Cohort - birth
Number of participants at first data collection
1,161 (participants)
Age at first data collection
Birth (participants)
Participant year of birth
1985 - 1989 (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1985
Primary Institutions
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos, THL)
Links
platform.recap-preterm.eu/pub/study/ester
oulurepo.oulu.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/36301/isbn978-952-62-1923-3.pdf
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Academy of Finland
Diabetes Research Foundation (Diabetestutkimussäätiö)
Emil Aaltonen Foundation (Emil Aaltosen Säätiö)
European Commission
Jalmari and Rauha Ahokas Foundation
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Computer, paper or task testing (e.g. cognitive testing, theory of mind doll task, attention computer tasks)
- Interview – face-to-face
- Secondary data
- Wearable devices
- Self-completed questionnaire – unspecified
- None
- None
- Existing research data
- Healthcare data
- Medical birth registry
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
