A Comprehensive Overview of the Physical Health of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study Cohort at Baseline

Clare E Palmer; Chandni Sheth; Andrew T Marshall; Shana Adise; Fiona C Baker; Linda Chang; Duncan B Clark; Clarisa Coronado; Rada K Dagher; Vanessa Diaz; Gayathri J Dowling; Marybel R Gonzalez; Frank Haist; Megan M Herting; Rebekah S Huber; Terry L Jernigan; Kimberly LeBlanc; Karen Lee; Krista M Lisdahl; Gretchen Neigh; Megan W Patterson; Perry Renshaw; Kyung E Rhee; Susan Tapert; Wesley K Thompson; Kristina Uban; Elizabeth R Sowell; Deborah Yurgelun-Todd

doi:10.3389/fped.2021.734184

A Comprehensive Overview of the Physical Health of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study Cohort at Baseline

Front Pediatr. 2021 Oct 5:9:734184. doi: 10.3389/fped.2021.734184. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Clare E Palmer¹, Chandni Sheth², Andrew T Marshall³, Shana Adise³, Fiona C Baker⁴, Linda Chang⁵, Duncan B Clark⁶, Clarisa Coronado¹, Rada K Dagher⁷, Vanessa Diaz¹, Gayathri J Dowling⁸, Marybel R Gonzalez⁹, Frank Haist^{1

9}, Megan M Herting¹⁰, Rebekah S Huber², Terry L Jernigan¹, Kimberly LeBlanc⁸, Karen Lee¹¹, Krista M Lisdahl¹², Gretchen Neigh¹³, Megan W Patterson¹⁴, Perry Renshaw², Kyung E Rhee¹⁵, Susan Tapert⁹, Wesley K Thompson¹⁶, Kristina Uban¹⁷, Elizabeth R Sowell³, Deborah Yurgelun-Todd²

Affiliations

¹ Center for Human Development, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States.
² Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.
³ Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
⁴ Center for Health Sciences, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, United States.
⁵ Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
⁷ Division of Scientific Programs, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, MD, United States.
⁸ Division of Extramural Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD, United States.
⁹ Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States.
¹⁰ Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
¹¹ Child Development and Behavior Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, United States.
¹² Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States.
¹³ Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VT, United States.
¹⁴ Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Denver-Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO, United States.
¹⁵ Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States.
¹⁶ Population Neuroscience and Genetics Lab, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States.
¹⁷ Public Health, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States.

Abstract

Physical health in childhood is crucial for neurobiological as well as overall development, and can shape long-term outcomes into adulthood. The landmark, longitudinal Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study^SM (ABCD study^®), was designed to investigate brain development and health in almost 12,000 youth who were recruited when they were 9-10 years old and will be followed through adolescence and early adulthood. The overall goal of this paper is to provide descriptive analyses of physical health measures in the ABCD study at baseline, including but not limited to sleep, physical activity and sports involvement, and body mass index. Further this summary will describe how physical health measures collected from the ABCD cohort compare with current normative data and clinical guidelines. We propose this data set has the potential to facilitate clinical recommendations and inform national standards of physical health in this age group. This manuscript will also provide important information for ABCD users and help guide analyses investigating physical health including new avenues for health disparity research as it pertains to adolescent and young adult development.

Keywords: developmental milestones; middle childhood; physical activity; physical health; puberty; sleep; sociodemographics.

Copyright © 2021 Palmer, Sheth, Marshall, Adise, Baker, Chang, Clark, Coronado, Dagher, Diaz, Dowling, Gonzalez, Haist, Herting, Huber, Jernigan, LeBlanc, Lee, Lisdahl, Neigh, Patterson, Renshaw, Rhee, Tapert, Thompson, Uban, Sowell and Yurgelun-Todd.

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