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National Children’s Study

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NCS

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The National Children’s Study (NCS) was planned to be the largest, longitudinal study of US children and their parents. It was designed to be “the first large birth cohort study in any nation to specifically examine the influence of environmental factors on birth outcomes, child health, and human development and the first designed to systematically examine the influence of gene-environment interactions on children’s health.” (Landrigan et al. 2006). It was authorized by the Children’s Health Act of 2000 and led by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in collaboration with a consortium of federal government partners. The NCS Vanguard (Pilot) Study began in 2009, testing methods and procedures planned for use in a larger Main Study. When recruitment ended in July 2013, the Vanguard Study had enrolled approximately 5,000 children in 40 locations across the...

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  1. Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA

    Steven E. Lipshultz & James D. Wilkinson

  2. University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

    Steven E. Lipshultz

  3. Department of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Public Health Division of Pediatric Clinical Research Department of Pediatrics, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine University of Miami Holtz Children’s Hospital of the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Medical Center Batchelor Children’s Research Institute University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami, FL, USA

    Tracie L. Miller

  4. Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA

    Miriam A. Mestre

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  1. University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

    Alan M. Delamater

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Lipshultz, S.E., Miller, T.L., Wilkinson, J.D., Mestre, M.A. (2018). National Children’s Study. In: Gellman, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_1200-2

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