Table 1.

Participating cohorts and registries

Main topic/disease of interest	Cohort	Country	Number of subjects
Lung function in the youth	ALSPAC cohort	United Kingdom	14,500 families in the Bristol area, United Kingdom
Lung function in the youth	PELAGIE cohort	France	3,400 pregnant mothers included in 2002 and followed-up with children
CF	French Registry of CF patients	France	6,750+ children and adults with CF
COPD	DCH cohort	Denmark	57,053 individuals between 50–65 years at enrollment in 1993–1997
COPD	NOWACcohort	Norway	170,000 women aged 30–70 years at recruitment from 1991