학술논문

Cohort profile: China undergraduate cohort for environmental health study
Document Type
article
Source
BMC Public Health, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2024)
Subject
Environmental Pollution
Heavy metal
Metabolomics
Global climate
Cohort Profile
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
Language
English
ISSN
1471-2458
02856964
Abstract
Abstract The China Undergraduate Cohort (CUC) is an ambispective cohort study with its major purpose to better understand the effects of lifetime environmental exposures on health outcomes. We recruited 5322 college students with an average age of 18.3 ± 0.7 years in China from August 23, 2019 to October 28, 2019. Follow-up surveys were conducted annually. The dataset comprises individual demographic data (e.g. age, sex, height, weight, birth date, race, home address, annual family income, contact information), health-related behavior data (smoking status, smoking cessation, passive smoking exposure, drinking habit, physical activity, dietary status), lifestyle data (physical exercise, dietary habit, length of time spent outdoors), disease history (respiratory disease history, cardiovascular disease history, urinary system disease history, etc.), mental health status data (sleep quality, self-reported stress, anxiety and depression symptoms), lung function and blood samples data. Preliminary results from our cohort have found the association between air pollution, summer heat and mercury exposure and lung function among young adults in China.