COHORT PROFILE Cohort Profile: Andhra Pradesh Children and Parents Study (APCAPS)
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Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK, National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council for Medical Research, Hyderabad, India, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, South Asia Network for Chronic Disease, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia and Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India
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Cohort Profile: Andhra Pradesh Children and Parents Study (APCAPS)
The Andhra Pradesh Children and Parents Study (APCAPS) was originally established to study the long-term effects of early-life undernutrition on risk of cardiovascular disease. Its aims were subsequently expanded to include trans-generational influences of other environmental and genetic factors on chronic diseases in rural India. It builds on the Hyderabad Nutrition Trial (HNT) conducted in 19...
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