Baby ELEFANT: Environmental and LifEstyle Factors iN metabolic health throughout life-course Trajectories (Baby ELEFANT)
The overarching project ELEFANT was established in 2015 to investigate the impact of environmental exposures and lifestyles at different points in the life cycle on the risk of non-communicable disease in China. Baby ELEFANT is one of three ongoing projects, with close to 50,000 participants aged less than 1 year old. The participants are based in Tianjin, China, and are follow-up participants of the youth cohort.
Study design
Cohort - birth, Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
48,762 (participants)
Age at first data collection
< 1 year (participants)
Participant year of birth
2014 - 2016 (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2002 (air pollution data)
2011 (Baby ELEFANT inception)
Primary Institutions
Tianjin University
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金委员会, NSFC)
Tianjin Natural Science Foundation
Tianjin University
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Secondary data
- Self-report questionnaire – unspecified
- None
- None
- Geographic, spatial & environmental data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
