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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May 22, 2017
Mischievous Responders in Add Health
Jokesters do not lead to misidentified disparities between sexual minority and heterosexual youth
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March 30, 2017
Add Health Director helps celebrate University Research Week
Dr. Kathleen Mullan Harris on Add Health and the importance of research at UNC Chapel Hill
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January 30, 2017
Add Health Research in the New York Times: Why Succeeding Against the Odds Can Make You Sick
Embed from Getty Images Summary: Dr. Gene Brody and his colleagues at the University of Georgia and Northwestern University used Add Health data analysis...
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