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， 孟菲斯市学校。 调查人员开始调查近7000名 七年级的学生。 该补助金计划于今年结束 现在进入十年级的一批人进入十一年级。 拟议的项目旨在继续跟踪这7，000名男性和女性 birthday队列，以评估整个高吸烟率期间吸烟开始的决定因素 学校和超越。 研究人员报告说， 对于内城的学校系统和重建来说， 补助金将为他们提供一个机会，以确定患病率， 非裔美国人成年后吸烟的预测因子。

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.