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A Research Agenda for Birth Cohort Studies: The GLOBICS Consortium

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2023 IADR/LAR General Session with WCPD

The 2023 IADR/LAR General Session & Exhibition with WCPD provided dental, oral, and craniofacial health scientists with the opportunity to present, discuss, and critique their latest and most cutting-edge research at a 100% in-person gathering in Bogotá, Colombia. The meeting was attended by 1,667 individuals from 76 countries.     

The recordings in this library from the meeting are a selection of the science that was presented at the General Session. These recordings give you the opportunity to participate in the meeting and hear from leading researchers. The recordings include IADR Distinguished Lecture Series speakers and symposia from a collection of scientific groups and networks.

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Session Description
The National Dental Research Institute Singapore (NDRIS) established the GLOBICS - Global Consortium of Oral Health Birth Cohort Studies (OHBCS) in 2021. Our research team is an alliance of experts in oral and general epidemiology who have worked for decades in birth cohorts. The group committed to this proposal have taken several initiatives to depict and debate findings from OHBCS, such as symposia during prestigious International Association for Dental Research conferences (2021 and 2022) and publications in one of the highest impact factor scientific journals in the field of dentistry – the Journal of Dental Research (Peres et al., 2021; Peres et al., 2022). One of the goals for 2022 was to consult experts to build a research agenda in the area. We ran a scoping review to seek potential collaborators for this goal and the GLOBICS Consortium (Peres et al., 2022). We mapped 120 OHBCS distributed in 34 countries spread across all continents. Then, we identified 16 potentially essential questions grouped into four categories (intergenerational approach to oral health, the relationship between general and oral health, oral health care and prevention, and free sugars intake in the life course) and used a DELPHI method to build the research agenda. The questions were submitted to the 120 ORBCS coordinators and key opinion leaders in population health. Four research questions reached consensus already from round 1 of the DELPHI study (response rate = 40%). These questions will be discussed in the proposed symposium as the future for pooled analyses of the GLOBICS.

The aims of this symposium are (i) To present a global research agenda after consulting experts worldwide; (ii) to describe the current evidence from OHBCS on the effect of free sugars intake during the first year of the child’s life on dental caries (iii) to describe the current evidence from OHBCS on the trajectories of free sugars intake on dental caries from childhood to adolescence, (iv) to describe the current evidence from OHBCS on the restriction of sugar intake at the level proposed by the WHO in childhood dental caries, and (v) to discuss and propose strategies to pool data from OHBCS to respond the four questions above. This symposium responds to a call for action after the Lancet Series on Oral Health (2019).

Learning Objectives
  • To provide an overview of the global research agenda for OHBCS
  • To identify mechanisms to pool data from OHBCS worldwide
  • To identify strategies to a collaborative work
Presentation Date
Saturday, June 24, 2023

Session Organizer/Chair
Karen Peres (Organizer/Chair)

Presenters
  • Karen Peres - Building a global research agenda for OHBCS: findings from the GLOBICS - The Global consortium of Oral health Birth Cohort Studies
  • Loc Do - The effect of sugar intake during the first year of the child's life and sugar consumption trajectories from childhood to adolescence on dental caries
  • Paula Moynihan - Free sugars and development of dental caries: update of the evidence and research gaps
Sponsoring Groups/Networks
Behavioral, Epidemiologic, and Health Services Research; Nutrition Research; Global Oral Health Inequalities Research Network

CE Credits
1.5 Hours

Financial Interest Disclosure:
NONE

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