Participants were enrolled in the Early Life Exposure in Mexico to ENvironmental Toxicants (ELEMENT) project which was started in 1994 and consists of three sequentially-enrolled birth cohorts from Mexico City Maternity Hospitals (20). A subset of these children, age 8-14 years, were contacted through their primary caregiver to provide urine samples, serum samples, anthropometry and complete an interview-based questionnaire (n=250). Subjects for this analysis have baseline and follow data on anthropometry, metabolic biomarkers and adequate serum volume for metabolomics analyses (n=206).
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LaBarre, J. L., Peterson, K. E., Kachman, M. T., Perng, W., Tang, L., Hao, W., Zhou, L., Karnovsky, A., Cantoral, A., Téllez-Rojo, M. M., Song, P. X. K., & Burant, C. F. (2020). Mitochondrial Nutrient Utilization Underlying the Association Between Metabolites and Insulin Resistance in Adolescents. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 105(7), 2442–2455. https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgaa260
Data was collected from participants of the Early Life Exposures in Mexico to ENvironmental Toxicants (ELEMENT) study, which consists of three sequentially-enrolled birth cohorts of pregnant women. Research protocols of this study were approved by the Institutional Review Board at University of Michigan and the Mexico National Institute of Public Health. We obtained informed consent from study participants prior to enrollment.
Bautista-Arredondo LF, Verenice Muñoz-Rocha T, Figueroa JL, Téllez-Rojo MM, Torres-Olascoaga LA, Cantoral A, Arboleda-Merino L, Leung L, Peterson KE, and Lamadrid-Figueroa H. A surge in food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic in a cohort in Mexico City. 2022. Article in process of publication.
