UrbaMet
Entorno Urbano y Salud Cardiometabólica desde el Nacimiento hasta la Adolescencia
- Durada
- 01/05/2019 - 30/04/2021
- Coordinador
- Martine Vrijheid
- Finançadors
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III
The understanding of how the urban environments affect health has been recognized as an urgent research priority. Urban environments are complex systems and there is a need to better understand how different domains of the urban environment interact with different individual behaviours and with a wide range of cardio-metabolic health outcomes during childhood.
Aim
UrbaMet aims to examine whether exposures in the urban environment influence cardio-metabolic health trajectories in children up to age 15 years in the longitudinal birth cohort study INMA, using state-of-the-art geographic information systems (GIS), biomarker, sensor, and imaging approaches to accurately assess exposures, outcomes, and mediators.
UrbaMet will start a new follow-up examination of the INMA children at 14-15 years of age (500 participants). As part of UrbaMet we will measure cardio-metabolic outcomes (pulse wave velocity, carotid intima media thickness, blood pressure, body mass index, body fat mass and distribution, lipid profiles, liver enzymes, and insulin resistance) in the children.
Urban environment measures (for the built environment, walkability, green spaces, food environment, and social environment) will be linked to geocodes using GIS. Data on mediating behaviours such as physical activity, sleep, diet, and commuting mode will be collected from the adolescents using novel sensors and computerised questionnaire tools. Stress levels will be measured through cortisol in hair.
UrbaMet is novel in that it will be the first longitudinal study to combine measurements of multiple urban environment domains during sensitive developmental time periods (early-life) with a comprehensive and longitudinal assessment of cardio-metabolic health and behavioural risk factors up until adolescence.
Total Funding
75,020 €
Our Team
Coordinator
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Martine Vrijheid Cap del programa d'Infància i medi ambient, Research Professor i Coordinadora de la Cohort INMA-Sabadell
ISGlobal Team
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Serena Fossati Investigadora postdoctoral
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Lea Maitre Assistant Research Professor
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Parisa Montazeri Col·laboradora
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José Urquiza Data Manager HELIX
Altres projectes
Veure projectes passatsEGG/EAGLE
Early Genetics Growth/Early Genetics and Lifecourse Epidemiology
PACE
Pregnancy and Childhood Epigenetics
European Human Biomonitoring Initiative
HBM4EU
APACHE
Air Pollution, Autism spectrum disorders, and brain imaging in CHildren amongst Europe
LIFECYCLE
Early-life stressors and LifeCycle health
Ventanas de vulnerabilidad pre-natal y post-natal en el riesgo de retraso en el neurodesarrollo asociado a la contaminación particulada del aire
STOP - Childhood Obesity
Science and Technology in childhood Obesity Policy
ATHLETE
Advancing Tools for Human Early Lifecourse Exposome Research and Translation
MOOD-COVID
Pre- and post-natal Maternal mental health and newbOrn neurOdevelopment during the COVID-19 panDemic
EUCAN-Connect
A federated FAIR platform enabling large-scale analysis of high-value cohort data connecting Europe and Canada in personalized health
OBERON
An integrative strategy of testing systems for identification of EDs related to metabolic disorders
The Lungfit Project
Socioeconomic Status, Physical Activity, and Respiratory Health in Pregnant Women, Children, and Adolescents
ExPEC-TEEN
Prenatal Exposure to Environmental Pollutants and Metabolic and Cardiovascular Health of the Teenagers
AURORA 2021
Actionable eUropean ROadmap for early-life health Risk Assessment of micro- and nanoplastics
HELIX-NAFLD
Developmental origins of child liver injury: the effect of early life environmental exposures
H2020-New URBAN_X
External and Internal Human Exposure in Urban EXposome
NutriPROGRAM
Early-life Nutritional Programming of Metabolic Health through Epigenetic Pathways
ONES
Fine Particle Matter, Fetal Growth, and Neurodevelopment: Examining Critical Windows of Susceptibility
AIR-NB
Pre-natal exposure to urban AIR pollution and pre- and post-Natal Brain development
FRONTIER
Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Birth Weight: the Roles of Noise, Placental Function, Green Space, Physical Activity, and Socioeconomic Status
The APBO Project
Air Pollution and Birth Outcomes: Windows of Exposure and Health and Economic Impact Assessment
INMA-Ado-Sueño
Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields, Noise, and Sleep Disorders in Adolescence
ANSES HyPAXE
Prenatal Exposure to a Family of Short Half-Life Endocrine Disruptors, Dysregulation of the Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis and Potential Implication for Child Neurodevelopment at Early Age
Air Pollution, Placental ‘Small Non-Coding RNAs’ and Brain Development
Contaminació atmosfèrica durant l’embaràs i primers anys de vida, miRNAs i salut infantil
The Role of Stress and Stress Reactivity in Mediating Impacts of Air Pollutants on the Brain and Lungs
EXPO-ENFANTS
Caractérisation des usages et de l’exposition aux radiofréquences induite par les dispositifs de communication mobiles chez les enfants
Lily
Light at Night Exposure and Sleep Quality
EMBRYORAD
Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields, Other Environmental Factors, and Development of the Embryo and Fetus
El impacto de la exposición al metaboloma de esteroides materno-fetales en el crecimiento infantil y los resultados neurológicos (IGRO)
Project Code: PI21/01269
NutinBrain
The role of seafood and nut consumption on human neurodevelopment from pregnancy to adolescence
ALTER - Contaminación del aire, microbiota intestinal y neurodesarrollo en los primeros 24 meses de vida
Project Code: PI21/01278
UrbanKids
Urban and social environment and childhood obesity – a natural moving2health experiment
5G expOsure, causaL effects, and rIsk perception through citizen engAgemenT
GOLIAT
Subclinical Infections in Children and Long Term Health Effects
Infection acquisition in early life and health outcomes in childhood - MARATO TV3
Base genética materna y fetal de la función placentaria
Project Code: PI20/01116