Adolescent follow-up in the Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment (HOME) Study: cohort profile.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Environmental chemical exposures may adversely affect an array of adolescent health outcomes. Thus, we used the Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment (HOME) study, a prospective cohort that recruited pregnant women and conducted longitudinal follow-up on children over the first 12 years of life, to determine if and when chemical exposures affect adolescent health.

Participants

We recruited 468 pregnant women (age range: 18-45 years) from the Cincinnati, Ohio region to participate in a cohort study between March 2003 and January 2006. Follow-up included two clinic and one home visits during pregnancy, a delivery hospital visit, and four home and six clinic visits when children were aged 4 weeks and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8 years. Of 441 children available for fol

SUBMITTER: Braun JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7228515 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature