title: [The Mother and Child Cohort Study will give new answers].
abstract: Most severe diseases cannot be prevented. The main reason is lack of information about their causes. The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) is a population-based cohort with 100,000 children included from fetal life. The ambitious goal is to understand the causal chains behind diseases and the comprehensive data collection will allow many diseases to be addressed. The overall goal is to come up with good preventive measures. The purpose of this article is to inform about MoBa and to stimulate enhanced use of data collected during research.
authors.affiliation: Divisjon for epidemiologi, Nasjonalt folkehelseinstitutt, Postboks 4404 Nydalen, 0403 Oslo. per.magnus@fhi.no
authors.forename: Per
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Magnus
authors.forename: Kjell
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Haug
authors.forename: Wenche
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Nystad
authors.forename: Rolv
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Skjaerven
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002669:Child Welfare; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003625:Data Collection / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D004194:Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008431:Maternal-Fetal Exchange; D009664:Norway / Q000453:epidemiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D012042:Registries; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires