Date of filling in this questionnaire or last update: 20/05/2020
1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
  Barcelona Life Study Cohort (BiSC)
Country
 

  • Spain

Please provide any other information on the cohort location/s if needed
  Barcelona
Name
  Payam Dadvand
Institution
  Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
Email
  payam.dadvand@isglobal.org
Personal website
  https://www.isglobal.org/en/our-team/-/profiles/18619
Do you want to add another Principal Investigator of the Cohort
 

  • Add another Principal Investigator of the cohort

Name
  Jordi Sunyer
Institution
  Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
Email
  jordi.sunyer@isglobal.org
Personal website
  https://www.isglobal.org/en/our-team/-/profiles/6203
Name
  Payam Dadvand
Institution
  Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
Email
  payam.dadvand@isglobal.org
Website
 

  • https://www.projectebisc.org/en/home/

Or provide website
 

  • https://www.projectebisc.org/en/bisc-project/protocols-questionnaires-informed-consent/

Contact Principal Investigator (name)
  Jordi Sunyer/Payam Dadvand
Is this cohort part of a consortium? (name consortium)
  ATHLETE
Participation in pooled analyses
 

  • The cohort is potentially interested in participating in pooled analyses of (European) occupational cohort studies (note pooled analyses also includes remote decentralized analyses that would not require any transfer of primary data as well as meta-analyses).

Main aim of cohort, please briefly describe the main objectives of the cohort
  BiSC is a prospective cohort study of pregnant women, their offspring and partners in an urban population. The study is designed to identify early environmental and genetic causes of normal and abnormal growth, development and health from foetal life until young adulthood.
Study design (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Prospective cohort

Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Mother-child cohort

Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Internal study population

Inclusion criteria
  All women a) with singleton pregnancy b) aged between 18-45 years c) within weeks 11-15 of their gestation d) able to communicate in Spanish/Catalan e) resident in the city of Barcelona or Esplugues de Llobregat f) plan to give birth in one of the BISC recruiting hospitals
Exclusion criteria
  a) use of artificial reproduction techniques for the current pregnancy, if it has applied donated oocyte or sperm b) having a severe chronic health condition that could limit the ability to communicate or attend the follow-ups (e.g. severe mental health conditions) c) having a plan to leave Barcelona city or Esplugues de Llobregat before delivery or having a plan to leave Barcelona Province after delivery (Note: If the potential participant does not know whether she will move out of Barcelona/Barcelona Metropolitan Area, she should NOT be excluded. Only having a plan to leave is an exclusion criterion.) d) Being high-risk for congenital anomalies
Year(s) of enrollment
 

From To
2018 2021

Enrollment
  Ongoing
Age range at entry (main cohort)
 

Minimum Maximum Mean
18 45

Men at enrollment
  1000
Women at enrollment
  1000
Children (<18 years) at enrollment
  1000
2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Active (contact with participants)
  • Hospital / physician diagnoses
  • Use of registers (specify)

First follow-up period (provide year)
  Ongoing (trimesters 2 & 3 of pregnancy and months 6 and 18 postnatally
Last follow-up period (provide year)
  Ongoing
Number of follow-ups after baseline (provide number)
  Ongoing
3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Questionnaire, Personal (Self-reporting or interview)

Occupational history/time frame
  Other (specify)
Specify: Other
  Occupational history from one month before the start of pregnancy and during pregnancy
Occupational coding performed
  No
Types of exposure measurements
 

  • Biomarkers (see also section 5)
  • Personal external sampling

Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Data modelling
  • Other (specify)

Specify: Other
  Personal monitoring of air pollution (NO2 and PM2.5)
Main categories
 

  • Other (specify)

Main categories | Other | Specify: Other
  Air pollution
4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED
Baseline - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Biomarker (specify)
  • Clinical/functional evaluation, e.g. spirometry, ECGs (specify)
  • Medical records
  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)

Specify: Clinical/functional evaluation, e.g. spirometry, ECGs
  Ultrasound examination of fetal growth and development, ultrasound examination of placental function, MRI of newborn brain, neuropsychological development of newborn
Specify: Biomarker
  Hair, blood, urine, rectal and vaginal swabs, nail, placenta, cord blood
Follow-up - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Biomarker (specify)
  • Clinical/functional evaluation, e.g. spirometry, ECGs (specify)
  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)

Diagnostic groups based on ICD10
 

  • F Mental disorders
  • O+P Pregnancy and labour
  • Q After birth – child disorders

F Mental disorders
 

  • Mood [affective] disorders
  • Depression
  • Eating disorders
  • Disorders of psychological development including autism and Aspergers syndrome

O+P Pregnancy and labour
 

  • Excessive vomiting in pregnancy
  • Diabetes mellitus in pregnancy
  • Complications of labour and delivery
  • Preterm delivery
  • Other low birth weight
  • Other, please state

O+P Pregnancy and labour | Other (specify)
  Fetal anthropometry and brain and cardiovascular development
Q After birth – child disorders
 

  • Other, please state

Q After birth – child disorders | Other (specify)
  Neurodevelopment, allergic and respiratory conditions, growth
Other health related outcomes
 

  • Biomarkers
  • Organ function (specify)
  • Sleep

Specify: Organ function
  Neurodevelopment
5. BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES & ANALYSIS
Biological samples collected
 

  • Blood
  • Hair
  • Nails
  • Urine
  • Other

Specify: Other
  Placenta, cord blood, rectal and vaginal swabs
Biological processing
 

  • DNA
  • RNA

Comments
  BiSC has collected biological samples to conduct genetics and epigenetics studies.
6. Other Information
 

  • Alcohol
  • Anthropometry
  • Demographics
  • Diet
  • Education
  • Environmental, air pollution
  • Environmental other (specify)
  • Medical history
  • Personality
  • Physical exercise
  • Residential history
  • Socioeconomic status
  • Smoking

Specify: Environmental other
  Noise, greenspace, water, temperature, chemicals, cosmetic use, UV radiation, home characteristics
Possibility for linkage to data registries/data enrichment via data linkage
 

  • Hospital discharge