Such conditions can affect how both the body and the brain react and develop, and sometimes this can be expressed as illness or impaired function - both early in life but also decades later.

The aim of our research is to shed light on possible causal relationships between influences in early life and later health and life chances.

We use population-based registers containing information on pregnancy and birth, such as the Medical Birth Registry, and linking this information to other registers (the Norwegian Patient Register, the Cancer Registry, the Cause of Death Register, the Prescription Register, and records of education and participation in the workplace). We use modern epidemiological methods, such as comparisons between siblings, to take into account, for example, other underlying factors that easily "interfere" in the results.

Collaboration

Department of public health and nursing, NTNU | National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland | Karolinska Institutet (KI), Stockholm, Sverige | Yale School of Public Health, CPPEE, New Haven, CT, USA | København Universitet