Cohort profile: Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development in Puerto Rico.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Puerto Rican children experience high rates of asthma and obesity. Further, infants born in Puerto Rico are more at risk for being born prematurely compared with infants on the mainland USA. Environmental exposures from multiple sources during critical periods of child development, potentially modified by psychosocial factors, may contribute to these adverse health outcomes. To date, most studies investigating the health effects of environmental factors on infant and child health have focused on single or individual exposures.

Participants

Infants currently in gestation whose mother is enrolled in Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats (PROTECT) cohort, and infants and children already born to mothers who participated in the PROTECT study.

Findin

SUBMITTER: Manjourides J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7371225 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature