Childhood Developmental Milestones and Risk of Adult Cerebrovascular Disease: The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966

NFBC1966 received financial support from University of Oulu (65354, 24000692); Oulu University Hospital (2/97, 8/97, 24301140); Ministry of Health and Social Affairs (23/251/97, 160/97, 190/97); National Institute for Health and Welfare (54121); and European Regional Development Fund (539/2010, A31592). This work was supported by Orion Research Foundation, Maire Taponen foundation, Päivikki & Sakari Sohlberg foundation, Paavo Ilmari Ahvenainen foundation, Finnish-Norwegian Medical foundation and Finnish Medical foundation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 (NFBC1966) data are available from the Infrastructure for Population Studies at University of Oulu. Permission to use the data can be applied for via electronic material request portal. EU general data protection regulation (679/2016) and Finnish Data Protection Act are followed in the use of data. Cohort participants’ written informed consent at latest follow-up study is used as base for personal data usage, which may cause some limitations to its use. For more information, contact NFBC1966 project center (NFBCprojectcenter@oulu.fi) and visit the cohort website for more information.