@article{3e9faa60ea4d497ba3f5ec510134bf85,
title = "Cohort profile: The 1993 pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort study",
author = "Victora, {Cesar G.} and Hallal, {Pedro C.} and Ara{\'u}jo, {Cora L.P.} and Menezes, {Ana M.B.} and Wells, {Jonathan C.K.} and Barros, {Fernando C.}",
note = "Funding Information: The cohort is currently supported by the Wellcome Trust initiative entitled Major Awards for Latin America on Health Consequences of Population Change. Earlier phases of the 1993 cohort study the European Union, the National Program for Centers of Excellence (Brazil), the National Research Council (Brazil) and the Ministry of Health (Brazil). Prof. J Patrick Vaughan and Dr Dominique Behague of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Dr Maria del Mar Garcia of the Escuela Andaluza de Salud Publica participated in the early phases of the study. Jonathan Wells from the University College of London and Ulf Ekelund from the Cambridge University have contributed to recent sub-studies. Brazilian colleagues who contributed to the study included Bernardo Horta, Denise Gigante, Elaine Albernaz Elisabete Weiderpass, Felipe Reichert, Helen Gon¸calves, Joao Amaral, Juraci Cesar, Karen Peres, Marco Peres, Maria de Fatima Vieira, Marilda Neutzling, Moema Chatkin, Neiva Valle, Ricardo Halpern and Silvia Fonseca.",
year = "2008",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1093/ije/dym177",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "37",
pages = "704--709",
journal = "International Journal of Epidemiology",
issn = "0300-5771",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "4",
}