BCS70 is helping to cast new light on the potential long-term consequences of missed education.

We’re excited to share news of a new scientific study that will build on this tradition of tracking people’s lives over time.

Findings from five longitudinal studies, including BCS70, show that women who identify as LGBTQ+ and bisexual adults were more likely to have asthma. This difference increases with age compared to heterosexual people. 

Women of your generation who went to university are less likely to have had children than women who didn’t. But new research from BCS70 has found that it’s mainly first-generation graduates — those who were the first in their family to go to university — driving this difference.

Physical activity is important for our overall health and can help to reduce our risk of developing certain diseases. But new BCS70 research has found that experiencing anxiety or depression in early adulthood may impact our exercise habits later on in life. 

A recent study based on BCS70 has revealed how our mum’s experience of parenthood may, to some extent, influence if and when we start our own family.  

Researchers have compared your experiences with those of people both older and younger than you, to discover whether there are critical timepoints when people are at most risk of social isolation.

For many people, maintaining a healthy weight is one of the best things we can do to protect our health. But according to findings from BCS70, the benefits of a keeping BMI in a normal range may be more far-reaching.

Your education and work in early adulthood play a key role in how healthily you eat later on in life, according to new BCS70 research.

We were thrilled to see BCS70 featured in an episode of the BBC series Call the Midwife earlier this year.