Wayne County Health, Environment, Allergy, and Asthma Longitudinal Study (WHEALS)
WHEALS is a large, racially and ethnically diverse general-risk birth cohort established in 2003 with the objective to relate early life environmental factors to biological markers associated with risk for pediatric allergy and asthma. In establishing the WHEALS birth cohort, staff recruited pregnant women between the ages of 21 and 49 years, residing in the southeastern Michigan area in the United States of America, including residents of Detroit and its suburbs, who were scheduled for prenatal visits at a Henry Ford Health System clinic and expected to deliver during the recruitment period (September 2003 to December 2007).
Study design
Cohort - birth, Cohort - primary caregiver and child
Number of participants at first data collection
1,258 (pregnant women)
1,258 (children)
Age at first data collection
21 - 49 years (pregnant women)
Birth (children)
Participant year of birth
Varied (pregnant women)
2003 - 2007 (children)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
Mothers and children of the Detroit metropolitan area in the United States.
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2003
Primary Institutions
Henry Ford Health
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Interview – face-to-face
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Geographic, spatial & environmental data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
