Social, Behavioral, and Biological Linkages Across the Life Course
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The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of over 20,000 adolescents who were in grades 7-12 during the 1994-95 school year, and have been followed for five waves to date, most recently in 2016-18. Over the years, Add Health has collected rich demographic, social, familial, socioeconomic, behavioral, psychosocial, cognitive, and health survey data from participants and their parents; a vast array of contextual data from participants’ schools, neighborhoods, and geographies of residence; and in-home physical and biological data from participants, including genetic markers, blood-based assays, anthropometric measures, and medications. Ancillary studies have added even more data over the years. Data from the project are available in various forms and have been analyzed in thousands of publications in peer-reviewed journals.
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March 8, 2018
Add Health data show a connection between early puberty and depression in adulthood
Research using Add Health data extends the link between early menarche and depression
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February 7, 2018
Add Health research in TIME: Friends are more similar genetically than strangers
PNAS research on genetic similarity between friends featured in TIME
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December 21, 2017
Add Health releases data from Wave V Sample 1
Embed from Getty Images Add Health recently released the data file for Wave V Sample 1. The file contains data from 3,872 of the Wave...
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