Advancing tools for human early lifecourse exposome research and translation (ATHLETE)



Vrijheid, Martine, Basagana, Xavier, Gonzalez, Juan R, Jaddoe, Vincent WV, Jensen, Genon, Keun, Hector C, McEachan, Rosemary RC, Porcel, Joana, Siroux, Valerie, Swertz, Morris A
et al (show 69 more authors) (2021) Advancing tools for human early lifecourse exposome research and translation (ATHLETE). ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, 5 (5). e166-.

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Abstract

Early life stages are vulnerable to environmental hazards and present important windows of opportunity for lifelong disease prevention. This makes early life a relevant starting point for exposome studies. The Advancing Tools for Human Early Lifecourse Exposome Research and Translation (ATHLETE) project aims to develop a toolbox of exposome tools and a Europe-wide exposome cohort that will be used to systematically quantify the effects of a wide range of community- and individual-level environmental risk factors on mental, cardiometabolic, and respiratory health outcomes and associated biological pathways, longitudinally from early pregnancy through to adolescence. Exposome tool and data development include as follows: (1) a findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable (FAIR) data infrastructure for early life exposome cohort data, including 16 prospective birth cohorts in 11 European countries; (2) targeted and nontargeted approaches to measure a wide range of environmental exposures (urban, chemical, physical, behavioral, social); (3) advanced statistical and toxicological strategies to analyze complex multidimensional exposome data; (4) estimation of associations between the exposome and early organ development, health trajectories, and biological (metagenomic, metabolomic, epigenetic, aging, and stress) pathways; (5) intervention strategies to improve early life urban and chemical exposomes, co-produced with local communities; and (6) child health impacts and associated costs related to the exposome. Data, tools, and results will be assembled in an openly accessible toolbox, which will provide great opportunities for researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders, beyond the duration of the project. ATHLETE's results will help to better understand and prevent health damage from environmental exposures and their mixtures from the earliest parts of the life course onward.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Exposome, Early life, Exposure assessment, Child health, Adolescent health
Divisions: Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Population Health
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 03 Nov 2021 09:45
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2023 21:25
DOI: 10.1097/EE9.0000000000000166
Open Access URL: https://doi.org/10.1097/EE9.0000000000000166
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3142546