Cohort Profile: The Consortium of Health-Orientated Research in Transitioning Societies

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Linda M. Richter, University of Witwatersrand; Cesar G. Victora, Universidade Federal de Pelotas; Pedro C. Hallal, Universidade Federal de Pelotas; Linda S. Adair, University of North Carolina; Santosh K. Bhargava, S.L. Jain Hospital; Caroline H.D. Fall, University of Southampton; Nanette Lee, University of San Carlos; Reynaldo Martorell, Emory University; Shane Norris, Emory University; Harshpal S. Sachdev, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science & Research; Aryeh Stein, Emory University
• Language: English
• Date: 2012-06-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy B - Oxford Open Option D
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2011; all rights reserved.
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyq251
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: International Journal of Epidemiology
• ISSN: 0300-5771
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 3
• Start Page: 621
• End Page: 626
• Grant/Funding Information: The Wellcome Trust for funding the COHORTS collaboration; Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for additional COHORTS analyses; The Wellcome Trust (Pelotas and Soweto); US National Institutes of Health and the US National Science Foundation (Guatemala); British Heart Foundation, the Medical Research Council UK, and the Indian Council of Medical Research (India); Human Sciences Research Council, South African Medical Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, the South-African Netherlands Programme on Alternative Development and the Anglo American Chairman’s Fund (Soweto/Johannesburg); Ford Foundation, USAID, The World Bank, Nestle Coordinating Center for Nutrition Research (Cebu).
• Keywords: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; YOUNG ADULTHOOD; PATTERNS; Science & Technology; WEIGHT-GAIN; 5 BIRTH COHORTS; BODY-MASS INDEX; MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES; SIZE; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; CHILDHOOD
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Public Health

Abstract

In 2005, plans were made for a series of papers on maternal and child undernutrition for publication in The Lancet. The second paper of the series aimed to describe the long-term consequences of maternal and child undernutrition for health and human capital. The focal person for this article—Cesar Victora from the Federal University in Pelotas, Brazil—decided to bring together available long-term data from low- and middle-income countries. He identified the five largest prospective birth cohort studies from these regions, all of which had at least 15 years of follow-up and an initial sample size of 2000 or more newborns. The principal investigators were approached, and all agreed to join the writing team.