SMOKING ONSET IN A BIETHNIC POPULATION

描述 孟菲斯健康项目是一项为期四年半的前瞻性研究 开始吸烟，特别是在女孩和非洲裔美国人中 孟菲斯城市学校。调查人员开始对近7000人进行调查 七年级的学生。这笔赠款将按计划终止，因为 队列，现在进入十年级，进入十一年级。 拟议的项目寻求继续追踪这7000名男性和女性 在HIGH期间评估开始吸烟的决定因素的双族队列 学校和更远的地方。调查人员报告说，这群人是 为市中心的学校系统和更新 格兰特将为他们提供一个机会来确定流行率和 非洲裔美国人成年后开始吸烟的预测因素。

DESCRIPTION The Memphis Health Project is a four and a half year prospective study of smoking initiation, particularly in girls and African-Americans in the Memphis City Schools. The investigators began surveying nearly 7,000 students in the seventh grade. That grant is scheduled to end as this cohort, now entering tenth grade, enters eleventh grade. The proposed project seeks to continue tracking this 7,000 male and female biracial cohort to assess determinants of smoking onset throughout high school and beyond. The investigators report that the cohort is significantly intact for an inner city school system and renewal of the grant will provide them with an opportunity to determine the prevalence and predictors of adult onset of smoking in African-Americans.