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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December 19, 2017
Minorities Do Not Receive Same Physical Health Benefits of College Completion as White Peers
Add Health study helps explain racial and socioeconomic disparities in health
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December 11, 2017
Gender and the Stability of Same-Sex and Different-Sex Relationships Among Young Adults
Demography features Add Health research on relationship dissolution
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December 4, 2017
More than half of children in the US today will be obese adults
Data from Add Health featured in The New England Journal of Medicine
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