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Born in Bradford is a large birth cohort study based at Bradford Royal Infirmary, a hospital in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. It was set up with the help of European funding in 2005 and aims to recruit all (c.10,000) babies born in the city between Autum 2006 and early 2008. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Cohort (statistics). ... A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ... Statistics Population: 293,717 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SE165325 Administration Metropolitan borough: City of Bradford Metropolitan county: West Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: West Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: West Yorkshire Ambulance service: Yorkshire... West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England, corresponding roughly to the core of the West Riding of the traditional county of Yorkshire. ...

Background

The study hopes to establish the causes of some of Bradford's public health problems, including the relatively high infant mortality rate and low birth weight recorded in the city. Funding for the project comes from a number of sources including research grants and charitable donations. Institutions participating in the project include the University of Bradford, the University of Leeds and the National Health Service. Patrons and supporters of the project include former Pakistan cricket captain Imran Khan, Baroness Lockwood of Dewsbury and HRH Sophie, Countess of Wessex. Public health is concerned with threats to the overall health of a community based on population health analysis. ... Low birth weight is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a fetus who is delivered to a reproductive female at the end of a pregnancy at a weight of < 2500 grams (WHO, 1969). ... The University of Bradford is a university in Bradford, West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. ... Parkinson Building, University of Leeds The University of Leeds, England, is one of the largest universities in the United Kingdom and the most popular by applicants, with 52,444 applicants in 2003 for 7,228 places (UCAS). ... {{redirect|NHS} The logo of the NHS for England. ... For the insect, see Cricket (insect). ... Imran Khan (Urdu/Pashto: عمران احمد خان نیازی) (Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi; born November 25, 1952) in Lahore is a Pakistani former cricketer turned politician. ... Dewsbury is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, to the west of Wakefield, in the borough of Kirklees. ...

Participating mothers will be recruited in early pregnancy and they and their child will be followed for up to 20 years. Health will form the early focus, to be supplemented by social, educational and economic factors as the participants grow older.

External links

• Born in Bradford website
• Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust's Born in Bradford page
• University of Bradford press release, 22/02/06
• Article in Medical News Today, 27/12/05

References

• http://www.borninbradford.nhs.uk