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ReviewJournal of medical toxicology : official journal of the American College of Medical Toxicology2012

The National Children's Study: an opportunity for medical toxicology.

Mary Ellen Mortensen, Steven Hirschfeld

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Review in Journal of medical toxicology : official journal of the American College of Medical Toxicology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. How do 3-year-olds do on the NIH Toolbox Cognitive Battery?Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2023
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  7. Assessment of Exposure to VOCs among Pregnant Women in the National Children's Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016
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  14. Children's Environmental Health at CDC.Revista de salud ambiental
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Mary Ellen MortensenDivision of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA. zeo4@cdc.gov
Steven Hirschfeld

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The National Children's Study (NCS) is a national longitudinal study that will prospectively investigate the influence of biological, environmental, genetic, and social factors on the health and development of US children. The NCS was mandated by the Children's Health Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-310) and is being implemented by the National Institutes of Health with input from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Environmental Protection Agency, and other federal departments and agencies. The NCS is a data-driven, evidence-based, community- and participant-informed study. Given its scale and scope, the NCS is an integrated system using several data acquisition strategies intended to provide evidenced-based design of methodologies and protocols. These strategies include the Vanguard Study, the Main Study, and formative research and sub-studies. The Vanguard Study, a pilot study, is currently underway and has been expanded from 7 to 37 study locations. The original study protocols and recruitment strategy have been field tested and revisions are under consideration. The CDC is collaborating with NCS in a pilot study that evaluates biological specimen protocols and will provide results on a broad array of environmental chemical exposures and nutritional indicators for a sample of Vanguard Study participants. This study is an example of the kind of collaborative opportunity that would benefit the NCS. Medical toxicologists have unique training in basic and clinical toxicology and laboratory assessments, and by partnering with study centers, both the NCS design and future NCS research projects could be enhanced.

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Child WelfareToxicologyChildCooperative BehaviorHumans

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PMID22108840
PMCPMC3550250

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