Study overview
Overview
- Study title
- Andhra Pradesh Children and Parents Study (APCAPS)
- Participants enrolled
- 12,814
- Lead institute
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) / ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN)
- Principal investigator (PI)
- Sanjay Kinra (LSHTM)
- Principal investigator profile
- Open profile
- Study design
- Prospective
- Location
- Andhra Pradesh
- Single / multiple sites
- Single Site
- Key highlights
- The aim of the study is to understand the long-term effects of early-life undernutrition on risk of cardiovascular disease. Subsequently it expanded its scpoe to include trans-generational influences of other environmental and genetic factors on chronic diseases in rural India.
- Reference paper 1
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4190511/
Insights & criteria
Insights
- Inclusion criteria
- Children born during 1987–90 who were still alive
- Socio‑demographic / economic
- Rural Setting
- Recruitment and timeline
- 2003-2012
- Follow‑up
- First Follow-up (2003-2005)
Second Follow-up (2009-2010)
Third Follow-up (2010-2012)
Fourth Follow-up (2021-2023) - Keywords
- Parents, Children, Nutrition, Maternal Health
Details
Details
- Age group
- >13 Years
- Gender
- Men & Women
- Scope
- National
- Category
- Birth and Maternal Cohort