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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April 1, 2016
Add Health Director, Dr. Kathleen Mullan Harris, Receives 2016 Golden Goose Award
Drs. Peter Bearman, Barbara Entwisle, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Ronald Rindfuss, and Richard Udry were awarded the 2016 Golden Goose Award for their work in developing...
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March 14, 2016
Intimate partner violence in adolescence and later cardiovascular disease risk
Add Health research featured in Preventative Medicine
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February 2, 2016
Add Health Ranked ICPSR’s Top Downloaded Study
Add Health has been ranked as ICPSR's top downloaded study from January 1 - June 1, 2018. According to ICPSR user statistics, the public use data have...
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