Adolescent cohorts assessing growth, cardiovascular and cognitive outcomes in low and middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Life-course studies are needed to explore how exposures during adolescence, particularly puberty, contribute to later cardiovascular risk and cognitive health in low and middle-income countries (LMIC), where 90% of the world's young people live. The extent of any existing cohorts investigating these outcomes in LMIC has not previously been described.

Methods

We performed a systematic literature review to identify population cohort studies of adolescents in LMIC that assessed anthropometry and any of cardiovascular risk (blood pressure, physical activity, plasma glucose/lipid profile and substance misuse), puberty (age at menarche, Tanner staging, or other form of pubertal staging) or cognitive outcomes. Studies that recruited participants on the basis of a pre-e

SUBMITTER: Ward JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5770018 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature