GROWTH AND HEALTH STUDY

国家心肺血液中心辛辛那提临床中心 研究所的成长和健康研究，与其合作 中心，提出了对当前研究的扩展，以便NGHS队列 从9岁、10岁到15岁，已经跟踪了七年 16年可以从青春期末期持续到成年早期 以描述心脑血管疾病危险因素的差异性。世界银行的目标是 NGHS计划是为了描述和解释a)更高的发病率 黑人女性青春期的肥胖及其与主要疾病的关系 心血管疾病(CVD)危险因素。辛辛那提中心， 因此，建议在女孩队列中再测量四年： 1)先行因素(如饮食、运动和社会心理因素)/2 身体习性(例如，身高、体重、皮褶和周长，以及 成熟状态)；以及30个受身体习惯影响的心血管疾病危险因素(例如 血压和血脂)。辛辛那提中心举办了一所学校- 基于NGHS的研究：受试者从四年级和五年级开始 辛辛那提及周边地区公立和教区学校班级 汉密尔顿县是从种族、地理和 该地区的社会经济代表。辛辛那提中心 招收了870名学生，其中432名白人和438名黑人。在NGHS结束时， 女孩的年龄分别为15岁和16岁。在扩展部分(NGHS-III)中，科目 年龄在16岁到20岁之间。辛辛那提中心将继续开办一所学校- 立足学习，只要能在学校看到S的科目。有些科目会 因各种原因在儿童医院或家中就诊(例如 向外移动，但在辛辛那提100英里范围内，转移 到一所不配合研究的学校(这种情况尚未发生 到目前为止)，或者辍学。)

The Cincinnati Clinical Center of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's Growth and Health Study, in conjunction with its collaborating centers, proposes an extension to the current study so that the NGHS cohort which has been followed for seven years from ages 9 and 10 years to ages 15 and 16 years can be followed through late adolescence into early adulthood in order to describe the divergence of CVD risk factors. The goals of the NGHS initiative were to describe and explain a) the greater incidence of obesity in black females during adolescence and b) its association to major cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor. The Cincinnati Center, therefore, proposes to measure in the cohort of girls for four more years: 1) antecedent factors (e.g. diet, exercise, and psychosocial factors)/ 2) body habitus (e.g. height, weight, skinfolds, and circumferences, and maturation status); and 30 CVD risk factors affected by body habitus (e.g. blood pressure and lipids). The Cincinnati Center has conducted a school- based study in NGHS:subjects were enrolled from the fourth and fifth grade classes of public and parochial schools in Cincinnati and surrounding Hamilton County selected from to be racially, geographically, and socioeconomically representative of the area. The Cincinnati Center enrolled 870 students, 432 white and 438 black. At the end of NGHS, the girls will be ages 15 and 16 years. In the extension (NGHS-III), subjects will be ages 16-20 years. The Cincinnati Center will continue a school- based study, as long s subjects can be seen at school. Some subjects will be seen at Children's Hospital or their home for a variety of reasons (e.g. moving outside the area, but within 100 miles of Cincinnati, transferring to a school which will not cooperate with the study (this has not occurred to-date), or dropping out of school.)