Hyperandrogenaemia, PCOS, and Physical Fitness in Women - A Northern Finland Birth Cohort Study

This work was supported by the Ida Montin Foundation, the Emil Aaltonen Foundation, the Finnish Medical Foundation, the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Sigrid Juselius Foundation, Research Council of Finland (315921/2018, 321763/2019, 6GESS 336449, AF 336449, Profi6 336449), the Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland (OKM/54/626/2019, OKM/85/626/2019, OKM/1096/626/2020, OKM/20/626/2022 and OKM/76/626/2022, ), Roche Diagnostics International Ltd, Novo Nordisk, and the Medical Research Center, Oulu, Finland. In addition, NFBC1966 received financial support from University of Oulu (grant no. 65354 and grant no.24000692), Oulu University Hospital (grant no. 2/97, 8/97 and grant no. 24301140), Ministry of Health and Social Affairs (grant no. 23/251/97, 160/97, 190/97), National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki (grant no. 54121), Regional Institute of Occupational Health, Oulu, Finland (grant no. 50621, 5423), and ERDF European Regional Development Fund (grant no. 539/2010 A31592).

NFBC data are available from the University of Oulu, Infrastructure for Population Studies. Permission to use the data can be applied for research purposes via an electronic material request portal. In the use of data, we follow the EU general data protection regulation (679/2016) and the Finnish Data Protection Act. The use of personal data is based on a cohort participant’s written informed consent in their latest follow-up study, which may cause limitations to its use. Please, contact the NFBC project center (NFBCprojectcenter(at)oulu.fi) and visit the cohort website (www.oulu.fi/nfbc) for more information