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New research plans confirmed on Bristol health study’s 30th birthday
28 April 2021
Thirty years after it first started, the Children of the 90s health study – one of the largest, most detailed longitudinal birth cohorts in the world – announced today [28 April] that it will launch its biggest collection of health data yet on three generations of Bristol families in September.
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- New research plans confirmed on Bristol health study’s 30th birthday 28 April 2021 Thirty years after it first started, the Children of the 90s health study – one of the largest, most detailed longitudinal birth cohorts in the world – announced today [28 April] that it will launch its biggest collection of health data yet on three generations of Bristol families in September.
- Bristol COVID-19 antibody testing study launched 24 March 2021 A study that will enable researchers to understand more about the second wave of COVID-19 and its long-term health effects has been launched today [24 March] by Children of the 90s, a health study based at the University of Bristol.
- Bristol researchers to collaborate on national study to understand long COVID 18 February 2021 What is long COVID and how can diagnosis be improved? Using data from electronic health records at a national scale alongside information from thousands of participants in the UK's population-based cohort studies, these and other questions will be tackled following today's [18 February] announcement of a nationwide long COVID study led by University College London (UCL). The study will include Bristol’s Children of the 90s health study, based at the University of Bristol.
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- The case for cohorts – revealing the ‘before and after’ response to COVID-19 8 February 2021 Throughout 2020, we witnessed an unquenched thirst for information on the COVID-19 pandemic and - in most quarters - a remarkable willingness to change our normal behaviour to help protect the NHS and save lives.
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- Launching a study into COVID-19 immunity during lockdown 10 December 2020 How do you learn what level of immunity people develop in the months after a COVID-19 infection? With decades of detailed health data and young, engaged participants, Bristol’s Children of the 90s (CO90s) health study is ideally suited to studying the biology of COVID-19 immunity. Here senior fieldworker Claire Rollings describes the process of launching a new study to find out how Children of the 90s participants are convalescing after COVID-19.