Population health bio-phenotypes in 11-12 year old children and their midlife parents: Growing Up in Australia's Child Health CheckPoint

Melissa Wake; Susan A Clifford

doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030833

Population health bio-phenotypes in 11-12 year old children and their midlife parents: Growing Up in Australia's Child Health CheckPoint

BMJ Open. 2019 Jul 4;9(Suppl 3):1-2. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030833.

Authors

Melissa Wake^{1

2

3}, Susan A Clifford^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
³ Department of Paediatrics and The Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

Abstract

In an ambitious undertaking, Growing Up in Australia's Child Health CheckPoint streamlined and implemented wide-ranging population phenotypes and biosamples relevant to non-communicable diseases in nearly 1900 parent-child dyads throughout Australia at child aged 11-12 years. This BMJ Open Special Issue describes the methodology, epidemiology and parent-child concordance of 14 of these phenotypes, spanning cardiovascular, respiratory, bone, kidney, hearing and language, body composition, metabolic profiles, telomere length, sleep, physical activity, snack choice and health-related quality of life. The Special Issue also includes a cohort summary and study methodology paper.

Keywords: children; cross-sectional studies; inheritance patterns; parents; phenotypes; reference values.

Publication types

Introductory Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Australia
Child
Child Health*
Humans
Middle Aged
Parents*
Phenotype
Population Health*
Quality of Life