ONTARIO BIRTH STUDY

The Ontario Birth Study (OBS) is an ongoing study of pregnant individuals coming to Mount Sinai Hospital (MSH) for prenatal care. The OBS was developed to create a resource for researchers interested in assessing pregnancy complications and the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD). The OBS enable researchers to study factors contributing to pregnancy and child health and examine how events during pregnancy and early postnatal life relate to later health, learning and social functioning. Recruitment begins at 11 weeks gestational age and continues until 6 months post-partum. In 2018 the OBS Kids was created, a follow-up allowing ongoing information collection from previous OBS participants and their children. We have thus far followed children up to 5 years of age... The Ontario Birth Study is a prospective cohort study embedded within clinical practice at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto. OBS aims to create a resource for researchers to study factors contributing to..