Muscatine Heart Study
The Muscatine Heart Study aims to define the distribution of established adult cardiovascular risk factors in school-aged children and to characterise the tracking of risk factor levels throughout childhood into adulthood. Between 1970 and 1981, over 11,000 students from Muscatine in Iowa, the United States of America, participated in six biennial school survey examinations. Participants from this original cohort were followed up as adults in subcohorts from 1982 until 2019. There are plans to follow up the cohort again as part of the International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort (i3C). The Muscatine Heart Study has also conducted several associated cross-sectional studies of relatives from the original cohort, each focusing on a different cardiovascular risk factor.
Study design
Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
11,377 (participants)
Age at first data collection
7 - 18 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1970
Primary Institutions
University of Iowa
Links
muscatine.public-health.uiowa.edu/MuscatineHeartStudy.shtml
epi.umn.edu/cvdepi/study-synopsis/muscatine-study/
doi.org/10.1016/S0031-3955(16)38478-4
Profile paper DOI
Funders
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Secondary data
- Self-report questionnaire – paper or computer assisted
- None
- None
- Healthcare data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
