Nancy Potischman, Liwen Fang, Ling Hao, Regan R Bailey, David Berrigan, Robert John Berry, Alison Brodie, Ann Chao, Jing Chen, Kevin Dodd, Yajing Feng, Guansheng Ma, Yuna He, Jing Fan, Michael Kimlin, Cari Kitahara, Martha Linet, Zhu Li, Ailing Liu, Yashan Liu, Joshua Sampson, Joseph Su, Jiandong Sun, Natasha Tasevska, Lichen Yang, Ruilan Yang, Qian Zhang, Ning Wang, Linhong Wang, Wang Yu
This article reports the study design, methodological issues and early results of a pilot study testing methods for collecting nutrition, physical activity, and ultraviolet (UV) radiation exposure data in a groundbreaking study in China. Epidemiological studies suggest that exposures across the entire life course, including in utero, early childhood, and adolescence, may be important in the etiology of adult cancers and other chronic diseases. The Chinese Children and Families Cohort Study intends to follow-up subjects from the 1993 to 1995 Community Intervention Program of folic acid supplementation for the prevention of neural tube defects...
May 2018: Nutrition Today