iABC

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Rasmus Wibæk Christensen
Trajectories of growth in early childhood and body composition and cardiometabolic risk markers in Ethiopian children
2019, 224 pages.

Mubarek Abera Mengistie
Body composition during early infancy and cognitive, emotional and behavioural development during childhood.
Double-degree PhD-thesis, Jimma University and University of Copenhagen, 2018.

Bitiya Admassu Wossen: The role of early infancy body composition on linear growth and body composition during childhood: a follow-up of the Ethiopian iABC cohort.
Double-degree PhD-thesis, Jimma University and University of Copenhagen, 2018.

Gregers Stig Andersen
Body composition in Ethiopian infants. Air-displacement Plethysmography from birth to six months of age.
2011, 116 pages. ISBN 978 87 7611 444 2.

Body composition was measured using an air-plethysmography (PeaPod) within the first 48 hours and several times during the first half year of life (iABC-1).

Recruitment took place between 2008-12. Subsequently, children have been followed up at 2, 3, 4-5 and 8-10 years, for anthropometry, body composition (BodPod), child development, markers of cardio-metabolic health, educational outcomes, and kidney size and function.

Partners

iABC was initiated in collaboration between Jimma University and University of Copenhagen. Later, researchers from Steno Diabetes Centre Copenhagen, and University College London and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine joined.