Born in Bradford[1] is a large birth cohort study based at Bradford Royal Infirmary, a hospital in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. 12,500 pregnant women were recruited to the study between March 2007 and December 2010. The lives of their 13,500 children are being tracked through research studies and the use of routinely collected medical and educational data.
Background
editBradford has some of the highest rates of childhood illness in the UK. Born in Bradford is helping to unravel the reasons for this ill health and bring new scientific discovery to the world.[2] It is also providing a catalyst for communities to work with the NHS and local authority to improve child health and wellbeing in the city. Examples of the success of Born in Bradford in changing practice include: the establishment of a Yorkshire wide congenital anomalies register, the first trust in the UK to provide gestational diabetes screening for all pregnant women in the district, improvement in vitamin D supplementation in high risk mothers, rapid implementation of NICE guidelines in midwifery practice, improved detection of childhood obesity by health visitors, and development of a simple mobile phone app to help parents and health professionals monitor children's weight.
Born in Bradford will continue to follow children until they are adults, and help doctors to understand more about the big health challenges of the 21st century such as heart disease, mental health and cancer. This is a study that has the potential to promote real change at a local level and also to make major contributions to global knowledge.[3]
The project does an annual programme on BBC Radio 4 hosted by Winifred Robinson.[4]
Further reading
edit- Raynor, P.; and Born in Bradford Collaborative Group (2008). "Born in Bradford, a cohort study of babies born in Bradford, and their parents: protocol for the recruitment phase". BMC Public Health. 8 (1): 327. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-327. PMC 2562385. PMID 18811926.
- Wright, J.; Small, N. (2012). "Cohort Profile: The Born in Bradford multi-ethnic family cohort study". International Journal of Epidemiology. 42 (4). Raynor, P., Tuffnell, D., Bhopal, R., Cameron, N., Fairley L., Lawlor D., Parslow R., Petherick ES., Pickett K., West J., Waibinger D. and the Born in Bradford Scientific Collaborators' Group: 978–991. doi:10.1093/ije/dys112. PMID 23064411.
References
edit- ^ Born in Bradford Official Website, 28 October 2013, retrieved 28 October 2013
- ^ Born in Bradford News, 28 October 2013, archived from the original on 29 October 2013, retrieved 28 October 2013
- ^ Born in Bradford Scientific Publications, 28 October 2013, archived from the original on 19 March 2014, retrieved 28 October 2013
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 Born in Bradford". BBC. 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2018.