German Million Children Cohort

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• The German Million Children Cohort is a register-based historical birth cohort built from the GePaRD health insurance claims database. — German Million Children Cohort: a historical birth cohort based on claims data to investigate the impact of immunisation and other early life factors on the risk of cancer and other diseases in childhood – cohort profile
• The cohort includes newborns recorded in GePaRD from 2004 through 2018. — German Million Children Cohort: a historical birth cohort based on claims data to investigate the impact of immunisation and other early life factors on the risk of cancer and other diseases in childhood – cohort profile
• The cohort contributes 17,752,995 person-years at risk with a mean follow-up of 8.3 years. — German Million Children Cohort: a historical birth cohort based on claims data to investigate the impact of immunisation and other early life factors on the risk of cancer and other diseases in childhood – cohort profile
• GePaRD covers about one fifth of the German population and about 25 million people insured by four statutory health insurers. — German Million Children Cohort: a historical birth cohort based on claims data to investigate the impact of immunisation and other early life factors on the risk of cancer and other diseases in childhood – cohort profile
• The final cohort contains 2,023,613 children after exclusions for inconsistent sex information or residence outside Germany at birth. — German Million Children Cohort: a historical birth cohort based on claims data to investigate the impact of immunisation and other early life factors on the risk of cancer and other diseases in childhood – cohort profile
• Follow-up begins with the first insurance period and ends at the earliest of cancer diagnosis, death, end of continuous insurance, the year the child turns 18, or 31 December 2022. — German Million Children Cohort: a historical birth cohort based on claims data to investigate the impact of immunisation and other early life factors on the risk of cancer and other diseases in childhood – cohort profile