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SBC
The Stockholm Birth Cohort Study (SBC) was first created in 2004/2005 by a probability matching of two de-identified datasets. The first, the Stockholm Metropolitan study (SMS; 1953–1985), consists of all children born in 1953 and living in the Stockholm metropolitan area in 1963. The second, The Swedish Work and Mortality Database (1980–2009; WMD), consists of all individuals who were born in 1985 and living in Sweden in 1980 or 1990.
The initiative to create the SBC was taken by Denny Vågerö at the Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet, and Sten-Åke Stenberg at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University.
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- Stenberg, S. Å., Vågerö, D., Österman, R., Arvidsson, E., Von Otter, C., & Janson, C. G. (2007). Stockholm Birth Cohort Study 1953—2003: A new tool for life-course studies. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 35(1), 104-110.
- Stenberg, S. Å., & Vågerö, D. (2006). Cohort profile: the Stockholm birth cohort of 1953. International Journal of Epidemiology, 35(3), 546-548.
SBC Multigen
To enable an extended follow-up of the SMS, the WMD was replaced by a new de-identified data material called RELINK53. RELINK53 is defined as all individuals born in 1953 and living in Sweden in 1960, 1965, and/or 1968. It also contains these individuals’ family members (e.g., parents, children, friends, spouses, and children). This turned the SBC into a multigenerational data material which is now referred to as the Stockholm Birth Cohort Multigenerational Study (SBC Multigen).
The work with establishing the SBC Multigen was performed by Ylva B Almquist and Bitte Modin, both at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University. Ylva B Almquist is the chair of the steering committee of the SBC Multigen.
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- Almquist, Y. B., Grotta, A., Vågerö, D., Stenberg, S. Å., & Modin, B. (2020). Cohort profile update: the Stockholm birth cohort study (SBC). International Journal of Epidemiology, 49(2), 367-367e.